{"id":492002,"date":"2026-04-09T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492002"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:32:15","slug":"kings-deny-tanking-late-foul-vs-golden-state-described-as-a-tactical-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kings-deny-tanking-late-foul-vs-golden-state-described-as-a-tactical-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings deny tanking: late foul vs Golden State described as a tactical mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1760\" data-end=\"2057\">The <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1784\">Sacramento Kings<\/strong> are under the spotlight after the closing minutes of their loss to the <strong data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"1881\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, with the NBA reviewing the play. According to ESPN sources, coach <strong data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"1968\">Doug Christie\u2019s<\/strong> decision to foul Seth Curry with 3:15 left was not a tanking move, but a tactical error.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2380\">Sources said Christie wanted to use a timeout before losing it once the clock went below three minutes, but misread Golden State\u2019s bonus situation. That sent Curry, an <strong data-start=\"2227\" data-end=\"2262\">86.4% career free-throw shooter<\/strong>, to the line in a crucial possession and later fueled <strong data-start=\"2317\" data-end=\"2337\">Draymond Green\u2019s<\/strong> public criticism about tanking in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2382\" data-end=\"2666\">Despite Sacramento\u2019s injury-hit roster and its draft position, team sources insisted that coaches and players were trying to win the game. Christie had already made his stance clear after a recent victory, saying: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2597\" data-end=\"2664\">Tanking is the last thing [I&#8217;d do]. I respect the game too much<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2668\" data-end=\"2682\"><em data-start=\"2668\" data-end=\"2682\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN sources, Doug Christie\u2019s late-game decision against the Warriors was not meant to lose on purpose<\/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-492002","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\/492002","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=492002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492002\/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=492002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492002"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492002"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492002"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}