Kings finish with a win
Sacramento closed its Golden 1 Center run with a 124-118 win over Golden State, a final‑home‑game result that showcased some young talent on a night the team erased a late deficit. (ABC7) Devin Carter led the Kings with 29 points while Maxime Raynaud scored 23 and Nique Clifford and Daeqwon Plowden added 20 apiece — Brandin Podziemski countered with a career‑high 30 for the Warriors, who fell to 37-44. (Field Level Media; Sactown Sports) ( )
Sacramento trailed 111-104 with 5:47 left, then closed its last home game with a 20-7 run and beat Golden State 124-118 at Golden 1 Center on Friday, April 10. Devin Carter hit a late three-pointer in that stretch and finished with a career-high 29 points. (espn.com, abc7news.com) The names on the Sacramento scoring line looked more like a summer league card than a normal Kings box score. Carter had 29, Maxime Raynaud had 23, and Nique Clifford and Daeqwon Plowden scored 20 each. (sactownsports.com, fieldlevelmedia.com) Carter’s night was not just points. Field Level Media reported that he also set career highs with six three-pointers and nine rebounds, which is a big load for a second-year guard on a team missing its usual stars. (fieldlevelmedia.com) Golden State still had the best individual scorer in the building for most of the night. Brandin Podziemski scored a career-high 30 points for the Warriors, but Golden State fell to 37-44 and could not hold the late seven-point lead it built in the fourth quarter. (sactownsports.com, espn.com) The game had a strange end-of-season feel because the standings were pulling in opposite directions. Sacramento improved to 22-59, but the Associated Press noted that the win hurt the Kings’ draft position instead of helping it. (apnews.com) That made the crowd at Golden 1 Center watch two different stories at once. One story was losses and lottery odds, and the other was a 48-minute audition for young players who rarely get this many shots, minutes, and late-game possessions together. (apnews.com, sactownsports.com) The result also flipped the script from three nights earlier in San Francisco. On Tuesday, April 7, Golden State beat Sacramento 110-105 behind Stephen Curry in his second game back from a right knee injury; on Friday, Sacramento answered by taking the rematch at home. (espn.com, fieldlevelmedia.com) So the final home game was less about a team chasing the postseason and more about who might matter next. Sacramento’s season record stayed ugly, but Carter, Raynaud, Clifford, and Plowden gave the building one last night where the future looked louder than the standings. (abc7news.com, sactownsports.com)
