On today's show the Kings cement their place in the plane tournament while the pelicans are flying high for now

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Celtics, Knicks, and the games with the most seating importance over the weekend

later on, but let's start in Sacramento where the pelicans beat the Kings 135 to

123 Zion Williamson and CJ McCollum both went off for 31 points a piece but the big

story here is that the loss cemented Sacramento's place in the playing tournament.

We'll get to the pelican side of this one, but before we do, how should the Kings feel

about having to play in the playing tournament, Adam?

They should feel cursed, which is I imagine how their fan base feels a little

cursed because they did enough in the the meaty portion of the season to

avoid that, but unfortunately these injuries have just plagued them and have killed them.

So I think they should feel a little bit cursed and they should feel terrible about it and

given the teams that they would have to face, the all division opponents, the sons, the Lakers and

the Warriors, just adds a little extra, you know, insult to it all.

Yeah, still a chance that they might be able to hold on to this A seed,

but as we're gonna get to later on,

I mean, big games for them this weekend weekend one of them is going on the second

out of back to back because they had to play tonight and then everybody basically

plays Friday night so are they gonna play Phoenix are they gonna play New

Orleans in that first playing game. Well, you just saw what happened when they played a pelicans.

They got to hope not New Orleans.

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