The Sacramento Kings were minutes away from ending 2018 with 20 wins and beating the Los Angeles Lakers twice in a few days, which would’ve been lovely. However, the Kings will have 19 (which isn’t bad of course) and now Lakers have the 2-1 series advantage with LeBron James likely being available for the next one. The lack of a small forward continues to bite the Kings and cold shooting came at the absolute worst time in a fourth quarter collapse.
Both teams were going back and forth to begin the first quarter.