Sacramento Kings @ Memphis Grizzlies
Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM ET
FedExForum, Memphis, TN | Game ID: 22500265
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
MEM 35 40 38 24 137SAC 22 25 29 20 96
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Aldama scores 29 points to help Grizzlies send Kings to 8th straight loss, 137-96
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- — Santi Aldama scored 29 points, Jock Landale added 21 and the Memphis Grizzlies built a big first-half lead and sent the Sacramento Kings to their eighth straight loss, 137-96 on Thursday night.
Cedric Coward scored 19 points and Zach Edey finished with 16 points as Memphis snapped a five-game losing streak. Vince Williams had a career-best 15 assists, part of the Grizzlies setting a franchise record with 42 assists.
Zach LaVine led the Kings with 26 points, connecting on 10 of 17 shots. Maxine Raynaud finished with 12 points. Russell Westbrook and Keegan Murray , making his season debut, scored 11 points each. Murray had been out of action since a left thumb injury in the preseason.
The Kings have lost all eight in the skid by double digits. Four of the losses have come by at least 27 points. The 41-point setback Thursday was their largest of of the season.
Before the game, the Kings announced that an MRI revealed a partial meniscus tear in the left knee of starting center Domantas Sabonis . The team said he will be reevaluated in three to four weeks. He suffered the injury in Sunday's loss at San Antonio.
With Sabonis out of the middle, Memphis worked inside with Edey and Landale. The tandem missed only one of their 13 shots in the firsts half, Edey scoring 16 points, Landale adding 13. Memphis shot 54% in the first two quarters, and the Grizzlies scored their most points in a half this season for a 75-47 lead at intermission.
The Grizzlies stretched the lead to 37 — 113-76 — entering the fourth.
Up next Kings: Close out five-game trip at Denver on Saturday night.
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
MEMCC C. Coward
CS C. Spencer
GJ G. Jackson
JK J. Konchar
JL J. Landale
JM J. Mashack
JW J. Wells
KC K. Caldwell-Pope
OP O. Prosper
SA S. Aldama
VW V. Williams Jr.
ZE Z. Edey
SACDD D. DeRozan
DE D. Eubanks
DS D. Schröder
KE K. Ellis
KM K. Murray
MM M. Monk
MR M. Raynaud
NC N. Clifford
PA P. Achiuwa
RW R. Westbrook
SC Schroder
ZL Z. LaVine
MEM/SAC the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur