{"id":492448,"date":"2025-04-17T02:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492448"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:47:59","slug":"klay-thompson-leads-mavericks-past-kings-in-play-in-redemption-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/klay-thompson-leads-mavericks-past-kings-in-play-in-redemption-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson Leads Mavericks Past Kings in Play-In Redemption Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson poured in 23 points, including 16 in the second quarter, to power the Dallas Mavericks past the Sacramento Kings 120-106 on Wednesday night, keeping their season alive and earning a shot at the eighth seed in the Western Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly one year after going 0-for-10 in a Play-In Tournament loss with Golden State \u2014 also in Sacramento \u2014 Thompson got his revenge, hitting four 3-pointers during a 44-point second quarter that broke the game wide open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BUILT DIFFERENT \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NhCMmmKgwS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NhCMmmKgwS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1912726180203049385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman nature, when you end a season on a sour note like that, you want to come out and prove people wrong,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cBut I thought I did a good job to start the game of trying to dish, rebound, play defense. The shots came to me after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Dallas moves on to face Memphis on Friday. The winner of that matchup will grab the final playoff spot in the West and face top-seeded Oklahoma City in the first round starting Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MAVS WIN!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Chime<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MFFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EFBOjDScAD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EFBOjDScAD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1912727356852101257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, changes are already underway in Sacramento. Following the loss, the Kings and general manager Monte McNair mutually agreed to part ways, according to a person familiar with the decision. The team has not made an official announcement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06jsw2fc3uw?si=nq2g92xoNdm6mtoG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson poured in 23 points, including 16 in the second quarter, to power the Dallas Mavericks past the Sacramento Kings 120-106 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492449,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17113,17837,16941],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,19151,17839,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Thompson was on fire exactly one year after his disastrous game against Golden State ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492450,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492448\/revisions\/492450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492448"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492448"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}