The Kings assigned forward Skal Labissiere to the Reno Bighorns, their development league affiliate, on Tuesday and recalled center Georgios Papagiannis.
Sacramento’s frontcourt will also be without center Willie Cauley-Stein for at least two games. The third-year center will not travel with the Kings to Cleveland and New Orleans. He is listed as day-to-day after suffering a lower back strain in the second quarter at Milwaukee on Sunday.
Labissiere averages 7.7 points and 4.0 rebounds in 17.1 minutes over 23 games, 10 as a starter, in his second season with the Kings. He joins rookie forward Justin Jackson, who started the Kings’ first five games, on the Bighorns roster
In the G League, Papagiannis averaged 14.