SACRAMENTO -- There’s never a dull moment in Sacramento. After spending the weekend doing damage control, the Kings get back to work playing the game of basketball Monday evening at Golden 1 Center.
They face a red-hot Oklahoma City Thunder team that has rattled off three straight victories and won 10 of their last 11.
Sacramento is 2-5 over their previous seven games, including back-to-back losses on the road to the Grizzlies and Rockets on Friday and Saturday.
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The Kings head back out on the road Wednesday to face the Utah Jazz for a pre-Thanksgiving battle. They’ll travel to Oakland to play the Warriors on Saturday before returning home to face the Jazz on Sunday.
Line
Thunder by 2.5
NBA
Projected Starting Lineup
Kings
PG De’Aaron Fox
SG Buddy Hield
SF Iman Shumpert
PF Nemanja Bjelica
C Willie Cauley-Stein
Thunder
PG Dennis Schroder
SG Terrance Ferguson
SF Paul George
PF Jerami Grant
C Steven Adams
Injury Report
Kings
C Kosta Koufos (right calf strain) OUT.
Thunder
PG Russell Westbrook (personal) QUESTIONABLE, SG Andre Roberson (knee) OUT.
Rotation Outlook
Kings
After dealing with a barrage of questions over the weekend regarding his future with the team, coach Dave Joerger is back on the sidelines trying to get his club back in the win column. Joerger has yet to make a change in his starting lineup, choosing to go with the same group for the last 11 games. That could change with Bogdan Bogdanovic’s health getting closer to 100 percent.
Thunder
Billy Donovan has his club rolling, despite the absence of Russell Westbrook. The star point guard has missed six straight games with an ankle issue, and he announced via Instagram the birth of twins on Sunday morning. He was not in Sacramento Monday morning for shootaround. Dennis Schroder has filled in nicely for Westbrook and will start unless the former MVP flies into Sacramento at the last minute.