Sacramento Kings – DownToBuck

Damian Jones 19 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)

https://youtu.be/O3iUcmMVT0A I thought I was done making highlight videos for games from the final night of the 2020-21 regular season, and then I remembered that I had somehow skipped over Damian Jones. God damn it. Nineteen is his season high, and it’s also just his fourth double-digit scoring game of the season (the other three…

Louis King Career High 27 Points Full Highlights (5/14/2021)

https://youtu.be/utPqVsDQipM Louis King just dropped 27 points, over doubling his previous career total of 25 points, which he had accumulated in 10 games for the Pistons last year and 4 games for the Kings this year. Just an incredible display of scoring for a player who had not shown much real-life NBA scoring ability. Sometimes…

Justin James Career High 31 Points Full Highlights (5/13/2021)

https://youtu.be/YnCrWb-YNWc Trudging through a featureless, colorless void, Justin James wondered when he would wake up from his dream. It was unsettling, feeling like all the matter in the universe had been ripped away, leaving only himself and a vast space of nothingness. The experience was somehow more nightmarish than the “true” nightmares he often had…

Terence Davis 27 Points Full Highlights (5/11/2021)

https://youtu.be/ZUqJoTBoT8o Terence Davis is really doing his best to take advantage of his new circumstances in Sacramento after getting traded there from the Raptors at the trade deadline. Honestly, his surge in scoring reminds me of another Kings trade acquisition of yore, and if you don’t know who I’m talking about here, you should be…

Terence Davis 24 Points Full Highlights (5/7/2021)

https://youtu.be/2mJb0knm8WU Have the Kings attempted to do any sort of promotional tie-in between their 10 PPG per game bench shooting guard Terence Davis and the nearby University of California – Davis, which is just a few miles to the west of Sacramento? I actually don’t know how such a promotion would work, but I’m not…

Tyrese Haliburton 24 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (4/30/2021)

https://youtu.be/0dUpTqRbyPA If Malcolm Brogdon can win ROTY of the Year, why not Tyrese Haliburton? The comparisons are there: -Both were NBA rookies, which is a requirement for winning ROTY of the Year unless you’re Ben Simmons -Both were contributing SUPER SOLIDLY to their respective teams’ efforts even if their raw stats weren’t eyepopping -Both have…

Tyrese Haliburton 24 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (4/25/2021)

https://youtu.be/Td8CdXM85kg As of this writing, Tyrese Haliburton is third among all rookies in raw win shares, at 3.1. That means that his actions on the basketball court have directly led to three wins for the Kings that they otherwise wouldn’t have. At least, that’s what I think it means. The concept of a “Win Share”…

Maurice Harkless 20 Points Full Highlights (4/20/2021)

https://youtu.be/HChIcfIlsfI Sometimes I see a trade go down and I don’t understand why it had to happen. That’s sort of how I feel about the trade that sent Moe Harkless and Chris Silva to the Kings in exchange for Nemanja Bjelica. Maybe there was some sort of arcane salary-cap wizardry that was happening here, but…

Chimezie Metu 16 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (4/20/2021)

https://youtu.be/Pu0UFcXa0Mk Chimezie Metu, as it turns out, is the perfect Richaun Holmes replacement. That much is evident just by watching this game where the Kings lose to the worst team in the league. Blame for the loss lies at the feet of many people, but it does not lie at Metu’s feet, because Metu got…

Richaun Holmes 25 Points Full Highlights (4/10/2021)

https://youtu.be/VGIirbyN_Oc When one thinks of “signature moves”, a few things come to mind. Kareem’s skyhook, obviously. Kobe’s fadeaway. Dirk’s fadeaway. MJ’s tongue flapping everywhere and hitting dudes in the face. Giannis’ eurostep. Kosta Koufos’ push-shot-floater thing. Note that last one. Yeah, I think Richaun Holmes must have borrowed Koufos’ signature move after getting a few…