After losing his debut as interim head coach, Doug Christie has led the Sacramento Kings to five consecutive wins. The Kings are now tied for tenth place in the Western Conference with an 18-19 record, sitting just two-and-a-half games behind the Los Angeles Lakers for sixth place.

Sacramento surges in the second half to topple Dallas in Doug Christie's 2nd game at the helm. Eric He | The Associated Press Game Recap: Kings 110, Mavericks 100 • Get NBA League Pass TODAY SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Doug Christie took over as the ...

De’Aaron Fox scored 33 points, and the Sacramento Kings beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 110-100 on Monday night to give Doug Christie his first win as the interim head coach after the Kings fired Mike Brown last week.

The Kings will hit the road looking to continue their winning streak. They play the Boston Celtics Friday and Chicago Bulls Sunday.

A phrase written atop the dry-erase board in the Sacramento Kings’ locker room captured a sense of what interim coach Doug Christie apparently wants to do. With a version of language that, let’s just say, might not be acceptable to everyone, the message was to do anything but relax.

The Kings cut the deficit to one on a basket by Sabonis after grabbing four offensive rebounds on a single possession. They took the lead on a basket by Fox after Lyles drew a charge at the defensive end. The Kings outscored the Mavericks 17-2 over the final 4:35 to take an 83-77 lead into the fourth quarter.

When it was over, Kings center Domantas Sabonis joined public address announcer Scott Moak at the scorer’s table to light the beam, signaling victory in Sacramento for the first time since a Dec. 12 road win over the New Orleans Pelicans.

Following the sack of Mike Brown by the Sacramento Kings (13-19), interim coach Doug Christie’s Kings debut was spoiled by Anthony Davis who scored 36 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Kings 132-122 in Los Angeles.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — De’Aaron Fox scored 33 points, and the Sacramento Kings beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 110-100 on Monday night to give Doug Christie his first win as the interim ...

The Kings are riding a season-long five-game winning streak as they prepare to open a three-game road trip against the Boston Celtics on Friday at TD Garden. They kept the streak alive when they overcame a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Miami Heat in a double-overtime thriller Monday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

The Sacramento Kings are 4.405 underdogs on 1xBet, which has Boston Celtics at 1.926 odds to close the (-10.5) spread. Over 230.5 is 188 on Betway with the under at 1.70. Jayson Tatum is 1.90 to score over 26.5 on Bet365, with DeMar Rozan scoring over 19.5 points at 1.90 odds. Read more here.

With that said, here is the 10th edition of the NBA Power Rankings: Previous ranking: 29 The Wizards back at the bottom of the power rankings following a 4-game losing skid that included two losses to the Pelicans.