The Sacramento Kings walked into tonights matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder just 3.5 games back from the Memphis Grizzlies and the 8-seed in the Western Conference playoff race. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that the Oklahoma City Thunder are one of the hottest teams in basketball, and hours before tipoff the Kings announced that De’Aaron Fox was out with an abdominal injury he aggravated in Tuesdays 112-94 win over the Warriors.

1st Half

The Kings got off to a mediocre start that involved some timely shots by Nemanja Bjelica, but he gave the Thunder a few baskets right back with underwhelming defense.