The Sacramento Kings fell in disappointing fashion in their New Year’s Eve matchup with the Dallas Mavericks, losing 112-96. Another third quarter meltdown led to the demise of Sacramento, to the chagrin of the entire Kingdom.
Friday’s contest was that of extreme parody to the first half of Wednesday evening’s victory. Despite being the Mavericks being extremely undermanned and the Kings being at full strength, it was still a struggle to string together four frames of quality ball.
Sacramento opened up the contest with a 40-point first quarter, with offensive efforts from the budding backcourt of De’Aaron Fox with 10 points and Tyrese Haliburton with 12 points to make up for half of the Kings’ scoring in the first frame.