{"id":480086,"date":"2026-01-21T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480086"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:03:12","slug":"kings-coach-christie-on-sabonis-limited-minutes-not-injury-management-its-decision-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kings-coach-christie-on-sabonis-limited-minutes-not-injury-management-its-decision-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings coach Christie on Sabonis\u2019 limited minutes: \u201cNot injury management, it\u2019s decision-based\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1913\"><strong data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1622\">Doug Christie<\/strong> addressed why <strong data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1657\">Domantas Sabonis<\/strong> has come off the bench and played limited minutes after missing two months with a knee injury. Ahead of Sacramento\u2019s 130-117 loss to the <strong data-start=\"1795\" data-end=\"1809\">Miami Heat<\/strong>, Christie said Sabonis is still working through the process of regaining rhythm and the shape he wants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"2076\">\u201cIt\u2019s a process,\u201d Christie said, noting the team is monitoring key stretches to meet its standard and prioritize winning possessions late or in specific moments.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2078\" data-end=\"2463\">Christie added there is no minutes restriction, calling it \u201cdecision-based\u201d and dependent on who is providing energy and playing well in front of him. In three games since returning, Sabonis is averaging 19.3 minutes with 9 points, 8 rebounds and 3.3 assists, versus his season marks of 15.4 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 30 minutes; the Kings sit 14th in the West at 12\u201332.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento say the 20\u201321 minutes in Sabonis\u2019 first games back are tied to game flow and a conditioning\/rhythm process after a two-month layoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/Sacramento-Kings.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480086"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480086"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480086"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}