Domantas Sabonis reached an unimaginable milestone final season, when he grew to become the one Kings participant within the Sacramento period to succeed in 500 rebounds within the first half of the season.
However generally your largest competitors is your self.
Halfway by way of the 2024-25 NBA season, Sabonis has now damaged his personal file that he set by grabbing 517 rebounds final yr. With 14 boards Sacramento’s hard-fought victory in opposition to the Houston Rockets Thursday night, Sabonis a complete of 536 rebounds mid-season.
Oh, and he was one rebound away from doing so in his first full season with the staff throughout the 2022-23 marketing campaign.
Because the Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985-86, Domantas Sabonis is the one participant to succeed in 500 rebounds within the first half of a season – he has now finished so in consecutive seasons.
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Sabonis is having a profession yr in his ninth NBA season, averaging 20.6 factors on 60% environment friendly capturing from the sector and 47.8% from 3-point vary, with 14.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists in 36.1 minutes.
The nice Lithuanian man led the league in rebounds over the previous two seasons, and that is still true in all 41 video games this yr.
Sabonis was appointed Western Convention Participant of the Week for his contribution to Sacramento’s continued sizzling streak final week, which included a seven-game profitable streak and profitable eight of its final 10 video games.
This streak additionally coincided with the firing of former Kings coach Mike Brown, who was changed by interim head coach Doug Christie, somebody Sabonis has labored carefully with since his commerce to Sacramento. Sabonis — and lots of different gamers — credited Christie’s simplistic technique and talent to play extra freely on the courtroom.
The Kings are simply 1.5 video games out of the sixth group of the Western Convention playoffs, and they’re going to rely closely on the efforts of their rebounding machine to construct on their inspiring turnaround.
