Season: Game 1
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Box Scores
Los Angeles Clippers 89 - Sacramento Kings 108
Sacramento routs Clippers in season opener
Webber had a nice game in Kings debut
Kings are pumped-up for the season
Sacramento, Oct. 29 - The Kings opened the season at home against
the Los Angeles Clippers. Sacramento feed off the energy of the fans
and won in a blowout 108-89.
Artest had 3 steals and 2 blocks
Returning King Chris Webber scored the first bucket on a dunk which
set the Kings for an amazing 18-0 run to start the game. They did this with
great defense anchored by Ron Artest who finished the game with 3 steals
and 2 blocks. The first 4 points of the Clippers were all scored on the free
throw line.
Mobley lead the Clippers scoring 23 points
At the half the score was 55-36 with Kevin Martin leading the way with
16 points. He finished with a game-high 32 points including 6 assists.
Los Angeles tried to comeback bringing the lead down to 7 points with
still 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter led by Cuttino Mobley. But Sacramento
got to their groove once again and ran away with a 1-0 record.
“It really felt good wearing the Kings jersey again”, Webber said.
“We had a beautiful start,
and we carried off the energy from
the fans, this is a great start for us and hopefully we can execute like
this on our next game.”
Chris Webber had 19 points to go along with 7 rebounds. Bibby scorec
17 points and played great at the defensive end snatching 6 steals.
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IND 89 @
CHI 114 (K. Hinrich 13 pts, 12 ast)
CLE 126 @ MIL 101 (L. Hughes 25 pts, 10 ast)
DEN 93 @
SEA 104 (N. Collison 18 pts, 10 reb)
HOU 94 @ SAS 71 (T. Mcgrady 34 pts, 7 ast)
POR 94@ MIN 86 (C. Frye 18 pts, 7 reb)
BOS 84 @
NJ 90 (N. Krstic 18 pts, 12 reb)