Photo credit: @SacramentoKings

By: Ana Kieu

The Sacramento Kings suffered yet another loss, a 116-99 blowout, to the Portland Trail Blazers at the Moda Center on Tuesday night.

The Trail Blazers were glad to be back home, while the Kings just wanted to avoid their fifth straight loss. Kings’ Willie Cauley-Stein dominated in the first quarter with a lot of shots, including 3-pointers.

Kings veteran Vince Carter didn’t just have dunks up his sleeve, but also impressive two-point field goals, like the one embedded below.

The Kings trailed the Blazers 66-53 at the half. Sacramento had six steals with Carter, De’Aaron Fox and Bogdan Bodanovic logging two steals apiece.

Kings’ star Zach “Z-Bo” Randolph made a notable shot.

After that, the Kings had some fun on their Twitter, tweeting:
Willie: I’ll take this made shot @trailblazers: How about a foul, too.
Willie: Two points is fine
Blazers: Here’s one more
*God’s Plan starts playing*

The Kings got some help in the final seconds of the third quarter as Frank Mason III made a difficult bucket to cut their deficit to a single-digit amount of eight (88-80).

The Kings’ offense and defense proceeded to make the necessary shots and blocks, respectively. But they were unable to catch up to the Blazers in their season series finale and lost in a 116-99 blowout in Portland.

Notes
Kings’ starting lineup:

Up Next
The Kings return to Sacramento to host the Nets on Wednesday night at 7:30 pm PT.