Kings’ Domantas Sabonis Cooked Lakers’ Anthony Davis, and NBA Fans Were Ruthless

To the best center goes the spoils.
Kings’ Domantas Sabonis Cooked Lakers’ Anthony Davis, and NBA Fans Were Ruthless
Kings’ Domantas Sabonis Cooked Lakers’ Anthony Davis, and NBA Fans Were Ruthless /

One center was crowned the undisputed winner during Wednesday's Sacramento KingsLos Angeles Lakers matchup, and his name is Domantas Sabonis.

In the Kings’ 120–107 victory over the Lakers at Golden 1 Center, Sabonis extended his undefeated streak over Anthony Davis to 10 straight wins dating back to Davis’s days with the New Orleans Pelicans.

The Lithuanian-American center outmuscled Davis all night en route to his league-leading 23rd triple-double as the Kings completed their second-ever season series sweep of the Lakers. Sabonis finished with 17 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists in the widely heralded performance while Davis finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds and three assists and went 7 of 18 from the field.

Davis, who has also lost his last seven games to another European center, Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokić, simply had no answer for Sabonis on Wednesday night.

NBA fans—and Davis’s loudest critics—took to X to marvel at Sabonis’s all-around dominance over the Lakers big man.

The Kings (38–27) are the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference sitting three games ahead of the No. 9-seeded Lakers (36–31).


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Kristen Wong
KRISTEN WONG

Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.