The Kings aren't there yet

Sacramento lost Wednesday night, at home against Detroit, and it happens.

The last time the Kings played at home was January 22nd, the day after the Bills and Ron DeSantis dropped out. No team deserves mention in the same gulp as the Florida’s gulpty governor but what can I say, Buffalo? Tighten up the secondary depth, don’t blame it on the kicker.

Before Wednesday, the Kings last played at home the night Joel Embiid scored 70 points. And the Kings barely played at home on Wednesday, giving up 133 points to a Pistons team wracked with reputable trade rumors. Alongside the ongoing burden of being Detroit Pistons.

(A little mean to Detroit these days? Maybe I am cranky, the Lions thrived toward the Super Bowl, meanwhile the Bears’ all-time leading receiver is one of three living members of his draft class.)

The Kings stunk on Wednesday, were blown out in Cleveland on Monday and nearly blew a 30-point lead to Chicago on Saturday evening. The Kings won that game and four other contests (Indiana, Golden State, Memphis, Dallas) among the outfit’s seven-game road trip, also losing in Miami. These things happen inside a seven-game, dozen-day road travel turn.

Fourteen days, because we gotta fly in and out.

Then drive home, leave the bags at the door, nap, get up, pull the last clean shirt from the bags by the door, play the Pistons.