{"id":286829,"date":"2025-10-08T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:25:14","slug":"sacramento-kings-to-open-preseason-on-wednesday-what-to-watch-as-new-season-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/286829\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings to open preseason on Wednesday. What to watch as new season looms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/keyart-sacramento-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBA action is back starting this week in Sacramento with the Kings kicking off the preseason at home. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, the Toronto Raptors will be taking on the Kings at the Golden 1 Center. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Three other preseason games are scheduled in October, including one more game at Golden 1 Center against the LA Clippers on Oct. 15. <\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Kings starting 5<\/p>\n<p>The Kings will be entering the 2025-26 season with a core group mostly intact from last season. <\/p>\n<p>Zach LaVine remains after coming over to the Sacramento Kings in the De&#8217;Aaron Fox trade. Malik Monk, DeMar DeRozan, Keegan Murray and Domantas Sabonis round out the expected starting lineup. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Kings&#8217; front office has been relatively quiet this offseason. No big-splash signings or trades have been announced. <\/p>\n<p>Regular season tip-off<\/p>\n<p>The Kings will tip off the regular season on Oct. 22 at the Phoenix Suns. <\/p>\n<p>Sacramento won&#8217;t have to wait long to ring in the new season, however, with opening night at the Golden 1 Center scheduled for Oct. 24 against the Utah Jazz. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/cecilio-padilla\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecilio  Padilla<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Cecilio Padilla is a digital producer for CBS Sacramento and a Sacramento-area native who has been covering Northern California for more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Sacramento Live NBA action is back starting this week in Sacramento with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":286830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,22875,3143,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-286829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-kings","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115339246253515057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}