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Sacramento Kings vs. Dallas Mavericks

December 27, 2025 · 2025-26 season

The Kings beat the Mavericks 113-107 on 2025-12-27 at home. The Kings started Russell Westbrook, DeMar DeRozan, Precious Achiuwa, Keon Ellis, and Maxime Raynaud. The Mavericks started P.J. Washington, Daniel Gafford, Max Christie, Cooper Flagg, and Ryan Nembhard. Cooper Flagg (Mavericks) scored 16 points (7/23) in his matchups, with Precious Achiuwa as his primary defender. Russell Westbrook (Kings) scored 8 points (3/4) in his matchups, with Cooper Flagg as his primary defender.

Box score

In orange, the game high in points, rebounds and assists.

SAC

Sacramento Kings 113

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Keon Ellis GS	32:20	21	1	0	3	2	1	1	8-15	5-10	0-0	+11
Russell Westbrook GS	27:55	21	5	9	1	0	4	3	8-16	5-9	0-0	+8
DeMar DeRozan GS	27:46	9	4	6	2	1	0	1	3-10	0-2	3-3	+8
Maxime Raynaud GS	27:00	19	6	2	1	2	0	3	9-15	1-1	0-0	0
Precious Achiuwa GS	25:19	5	9	2	2	0	0	1	2-8	0-2	1-2	+9
Dylan Cardwell	20:58	4	8	3	1	2	2	3	2-4	0-0	0-0	+4
Dennis Schröder	20:16	10	2	5	3	0	1	1	4-11	1-2	1-1	0
Nique Clifford	20:05	8	9	1	2	0	1	1	3-10	1-3	1-2	-2
Doug McDermott	19:21	9	3	1	0	0	0	0	3-6	3-6	0-0	-2
Malik Monk	19:00	7	3	3	1	0	2	1	3-9	1-3	0-0	-6
Totals		113	50	32	16	7	11	15	45-104	17-38	6-8

Did not play: Keegan Murray (DND - Injury/Illness), Dario Šarić (DNP - Coach's Decision)

DAL

Dallas Mavericks 107

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Cooper Flagg GS	34:13	23	6	5	0	0	5	3	7-13	3-4	6-6	-9
P.J. Washington GS	33:49	17	5	1	0	4	2	1	7-13	0-4	3-3	+9
Max Christie GS	29:56	9	7	5	1	0	3	2	3-12	2-4	1-2	-2
Daniel Gafford GS	23:02	11	7	1	1	1	2	1	5-7	0-0	1-1	-9
Ryan Nembhard GS	16:48	9	2	3	0	0	2	2	4-8	1-3	0-0	-10
Naji Marshall	26:25	11	2	1	1	0	2	2	4-9	1-1	2-4	-1
Klay Thompson	25:09	14	5	0	1	1	0	0	5-13	4-8	0-0	+4
Dwight Powell	19:11	1	11	0	0	2	1	0	0-1	0-0	1-4	+3
D'Angelo Russell	12:47	7	0	4	1	0	1	0	3-7	1-2	0-0	-3
Jaden Hardy	7:16	5	3	2	1	0	1	0	2-3	1-1	0-0	-4
Moussa Cisse	5:47	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0
Caleb Martin	5:37	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	-8
Totals		107	51	23	6	8	19	11	40-87	13-27	14-20

Lineups

SAC

Sacramento Kings

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

Russell Westbrook · DeMar DeRozan · Precious Achiuwa · Keon Ellis · Maxime Raynaud Starter 18.3 min
Dennis Schröder · Doug McDermott · Malik Monk · Nique Clifford · Maxime Raynaud 6.8 min
Dennis Schröder · Doug McDermott · Malik Monk · Nique Clifford · Dylan Cardwell 5.9 min
Russell Westbrook · DeMar DeRozan · Doug McDermott · Keon Ellis · Dylan Cardwell 4.7 min
Dennis Schröder · Malik Monk · Keon Ellis · Nique Clifford · Dylan Cardwell 3.3 min

DAL

Dallas Mavericks

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

P.J. Washington · Daniel Gafford · Max Christie · Cooper Flagg · Ryan Nembhard Starter 5.6 min
P.J. Washington · Daniel Gafford · Naji Marshall · Max Christie · Cooper Flagg 4.5 min
Dwight Powell · Naji Marshall · Max Christie · Cooper Flagg · Ryan Nembhard 4.3 min
Klay Thompson · Dwight Powell · P.J. Washington · Max Christie · Cooper Flagg 4.0 min
Klay Thompson · D'Angelo Russell · Caleb Martin · P.J. Washington · Daniel Gafford 3.9 min

Who guarded whom

Based on stats.nba.com matchup data. Points and shooting are always the offensive player's.

Kings defense

Cooper Flagg 16 pts (7/23) in 70 possessions

Guarded by: Precious Achiuwa (34 %, 1 pts) · Doug McDermott (15 %, 0 pts) · Russell Westbrook (14 %, 2 pts)
D'Angelo Russell 10 pts (4/8) in 26 possessions

Guarded by: Dennis Schröder (30 %, 0 pts) · Malik Monk (22 %, 0 pts) · Keon Ellis (14 %, 2 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Keon Ellis	Max Christie: 17 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Ryan Nembhard: 12 poss., 11 pts (4/4)
DeMar DeRozan	P.J. Washington: 19 poss., 2 pts (1/5) · Max Christie: 15 poss., 5 pts (2/2)
Russell Westbrook	Max Christie: 14 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Naji Marshall: 12 poss., 11 pts (4/5)
Maxime Raynaud	Daniel Gafford: 17 poss., 7 pts (3/5) · Dwight Powell: 13 poss., 2 pts (1/4)
Precious Achiuwa	Cooper Flagg: 24 poss., 1 pts (0/5) · Daniel Gafford: 5 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Nique Clifford	P.J. Washington: 13 poss., 0 pts (0/2) · Naji Marshall: 6 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Dennis Schröder	D'Angelo Russell: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/2) · Klay Thompson: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Dylan Cardwell	Daniel Gafford: 12 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Dwight Powell: 11 poss., 2 pts (1/1)
Malik Monk	P.J. Washington: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Caleb Martin: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Doug McDermott	Klay Thompson: 19 poss., 3 pts (1/1) · Cooper Flagg: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/2)

Mavericks defense

Russell Westbrook 8 pts (3/4) in 56 possessions

Guarded by: Cooper Flagg (26 %, 3 pts) · P.J. Washington (17 %, 3 pts) · Naji Marshall (15 %, 0 pts)
Malik Monk 10 pts (4/7) in 43 possessions

Guarded by: Caleb Martin (23 %, 0 pts) · Klay Thompson (15 %, 2 pts) · P.J. Washington (13 %, 0 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Cooper Flagg	Precious Achiuwa: 23 poss., 2 pts (0/1) · Russell Westbrook: 14 poss., 3 pts (1/1)
P.J. Washington	Nique Clifford: 15 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · DeMar DeRozan: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Max Christie	DeMar DeRozan: 19 poss., 0 pts (0/3) · Keon Ellis: 15 poss., 1 pts (0/1)
Naji Marshall	DeMar DeRozan: 10 poss., 7 pts (3/4) · Precious Achiuwa: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Klay Thompson	Doug McDermott: 20 poss., 6 pts (2/6) · Keon Ellis: 8 poss., 3 pts (1/1)
Daniel Gafford	Maxime Raynaud: 22 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Dylan Cardwell: 14 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Dwight Powell	Maxime Raynaud: 13 poss., 1 pts (0/0) · Dylan Cardwell: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Ryan Nembhard	Keon Ellis: 15 poss., 0 pts (0/2) · Malik Monk: 3 poss., 2 pts (1/1)
D'Angelo Russell	Dennis Schröder: 10 poss., 2 pts (1/2) · Malik Monk: 4 poss., 3 pts (1/1)
Jaden Hardy	Russell Westbrook: 5 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Dennis Schröder: 2 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Caleb Martin	Malik Monk: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Dennis Schröder: 1 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Moussa Cisse	Dylan Cardwell: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Maxime Raynaud: 4 poss., 0 pts (0/0)