Sacramento Kings Power Forward Domantas Sabonis had a great 2023-2024 regular season and is the first player since Wilt Chamberlain during the 1967-68 season to have 1,500+ points 1,000+ rebounds 600+ assists in a season. Sabonis had a career year averaging 19.4 points per game, led the league in rebounds at 12.7 per game, and finished sixth in assists per game at just over eight. Sabonis also had a streak of 61 consecutive double-doubles during the regular season, the most in NBA history.
Will Sabonis be able to follow up a historic regular season with a successful playoff run?
Domantas Sabonis Career Summary
Sabonis is the first player since Wilt with
1,500+ points
1,000+ rebounds
600+ assistsin a season. pic.twitter.com/X0ld0AF7cV
— StatMuse (@statmuse) April 16, 2024
Sabonis was drafted No. 11 overall in the 2016 NBA Draft out of Gonzaga by the Orlando Magic. He never played for the Magic and spent his rookie year with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sabonis spent parts of the next five seasons with the Indiana Pacers before being traded to the Kings in February of 2022. With the Sacramento Kings, his career has taken off.
Sabonis had a standout 2022-2023 and was named to an All-NBA team for the first time in his career. He also led the league in rebounding last season with 12.3 per game. Sabonis is also a three-time NBA All-Star (2020, 2021, 2023).
Sabonis has an NBA bloodline as his father Arvydas Sabonis played in the NBA for seven years with the Portland Trail Blazers. In 2011, Sabonis was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Sacramento Kings In Precarious Position Entering NBA Playoffs
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The Sacramento Kings finished the regular season with a record of 46-36 which garnered the ninth seed in the Western Conference. Sacramento hosts the Golden State Warriors tonight for an opportunity to play the loser of the other play-in game between the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans.
The Sacramento Kings have a tough road ahead of them in order just to make the NBA Playoffs. In addition, the Kings are playing their worst basketball of the year at the most inopportune of times. They dropped five of their final seven regular-season games.
Sacramento has a chance to avenge a game seven home playoff loss against the Warriors, and possibly break up the championship trio of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green.
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