De’Aaron Fox’s season-high 43 leads Kings past Spurs 129-120 in In-Season Tournament

De’Aaron Fox scored a season-high 43 points, and the Sacramento Kings conquered 27 points from Victor Wembanyama to hold off the San Antonio Spurs 129-120 on Friday night to stay unbeaten in the In-Season Tournament.

Domantas Sabonis had 27 points and 14 rebounds as Sacramento won its 5th straight. Malik Monk included 20 points in the Kings’ 4th straight win in San Antonio.

Zach Collins had 28 points and Keldon Johnson included 21 points for the Spurs, who have lost 7 directly.

Wembanyama was 12 for 26 from the field after scoring a season-low 8 points in a 123-87 loss at Oklahoma City on Tuesday.

The 7-foot-3 novice from France included 9 rebounds and a series of emphasize plays.

Despite being pressed to the standard on a nasty by Keegan Murray, Wembanyama extended from behind the backboard to suggestion in a layup off an alley-oop pass from Collins.

But the veteran Kings stoodupto the highlights and the runs to beat the young Spurs.

Sacramento is 2-0 in the West Group C standings of the in-season competition and the Spurs are 0-3.

The Kings went on a 7-0 run after the Spurs pulled to 112-111 with 6 minutes staying to restore manage of a back-and-forth contest.

Sacramento opened the 3rd quarter on a 15-4 run for its biggest lead to that point at 77-66. San Antonio shot 1 for 5 throughout the run.

The Spurs were without beginning guard Devin Vassell and backup point guard Tre Jones. Vassell sat out with a strained groin and Jones missedouton his 3rd straight videogame with a strained right hamstring.

San Antonio had 33 helps inspiteof being without 2 of its main ballhandlers.

The Spurs raced to a 9-0 lead with Wembanyama scoring 6 points. San Antonio opened the videogame going 4 for 6 on 3-tips.

San Antonio extended the lead to 18 points in the veryfirst quarter just to lose that lead 30 seconds into the 2nd quarter.

UP NEXT

Kings: At Dallas on Sunday.

Spurs: Host Memphis on Saturday.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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