SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Sacramento Kings fans kept waiting for their team to make a run against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night after watching them rally from a 27-point deficit to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday in Minneapolis, but that never happened.
Dennis Schroder scored 24 points and rookie two-way player Luguentz Dort had a career-high 23, leading the Thunder to a 120-100 victory over the Kings at Golden 1 Center.
Danilo Gallinari scored 19 points for the Thunder (29-20), who shot 50% from the field and made 44.1% from 3-point range. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 17 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 23 points to lead the Kings (17-30), who made just 9 of 39 (.231) from beyond the arc. De'Aaron Fox had 19 points. Buddy Hield was held to 13 after scoring a career-high 42 in the win over Minnesota.
Both teams started slowly. The Kings missed eight of their first 11 shots. The Thunder missed 10 of 14 to begin the game. The Kings trailed 23-16 after going 6 of 21 from the field and 1 of 9 from 3-point range in the opening period.
The Kings got within three on a couple of occasions early in the second quarter, but the Thunder staged a 10-0 run to take a 59-43 lead on a 3-pointer by Schroder.
Oklahoma City led 59-47 at the half. Sacramento cut the deficit to seven early in the third quarter, but the Kings couldn't build on that momentum. The Thunder quickly reestablished a double-digit lead and continued to pour it on, leading by as many as 23 in the third and 29 in the fourth.
