Kings vs Jazz Preview: A Saturday Standoff

Another Saturday, another shot at playing spoiler to a playoff hopeful for a Kings squad coming off of a must-lose win against the Brooklyn Nets! The Kings are in Sacramento for their second game in a five game homestand and must face off against a red hot Jazz squad surging toward the playoffs on the backs of Rudy Gobert and rookie Donovan Mitchell. I wish I had some snark or bite to this preview, but the Jazz have all the makings of good story: a group of players that were given up on or passed over, inching closer to the playoffs after a horrendous start on the coattails of some rookie flash and defensive fire and coached by a serial-killer-slash-evil-genius. Alright, that’s my one poke at a team I genuinely root for, and I definitely didn’t pause for 10 minutes thinking of other ways to hurt a beautiful team. Ricky Rubio can’t shoot. Boom Roasted.

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