Sacramento Kings vs Brooklyn Nets Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 03/29/26

The Sacramento Kings will travel to take on the Brooklyn Nets Sunday night in the battle of the tanks. Both teams may be trying to lose this game as the season winds down to an end, and both the Kings and the Nets sit below 20 wins and are two of the worst teams in the NBA. The Kings have a couple more wins overall, but Sacramento holds the worst road record in the NBA of 6-31. The Kings have lost five of their last six games. The Nets are 9-26 on their home floor this season, but they are currently on a 10-game losing streak. They will be returning home from  a four-game road trip to play this game. As you would expect from two tanking teams, the injury list is long and heavy. The Kings will be without Russell Westbrook, Keegan Murray, Drew Eubanks, De’Andre Hunter, Domantas Sabonis, and Zach LaVine. DeMar DeRozan is still available for this game, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the 36-year old is a late add to the injury list after the Kings played in Atlanta last night. The Nets will be without Danny Wolf, Michael Porter Jr, Egor Demin, and Day’Ron Sharpe. The Nets will still have Noah Clowney and Nic Claxton still available and playing in this game. Now, I could pretend to find some statistics that supports a side in this one, but realistically there is no number that can provide an edge in a game like this. These are two teams that are trying to lose at this time, and the question really falls under which team will do a better job tanking this matchup. With the Kings traveling in from Atlanta in the second half of a back-to-back, I think the Kings have a better chance of falling short in this matchup. Plus, with this game being played in Brooklyn on a Sunday afternoon, this could be a game a lot of families attend. The Nets are returning home from a road trip, and motivation may be there to provide the home town crowd with a good effort. Overall, I’ll take the Nets on their home floor as slight underdogs. 

Nets +100 is available at the time of publishing. Playable at that number.