With the NBA on hiatus for at least 30 days, I'll be coping by posting an article every day with 30 random/interesting facts from each of the 30 teams. Hopefully, the season will resume when I hit publish on the Wizards' article.
Day 26:
Sacramento Kings
Stats are mostly from Cleaning the Glass, but also RotoWire, NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.
- Harrison Barnes has played the fifth-most minutes (2,231) in the NBA.
- Buddy Hield has made the second-most threes (244) in the league.
- Nemanja Bjelica has the seventh-best three-point percentage (42.4) in the NBA. He shoots 53% from the corner.
- De'Aaron Fox's 35.4 assist percentage ranks ninth in the league.
- Richaun Holmes is in the 93rd percentile for bigs in terms of points per 100 shot attempts (136.1).
- De'Aaron Fox scores 20% of his baskets unassisted -- in the 96th percentile in terms of iso scoring frequency for point guards.
- De'Aaron Fox takes 31% of his shots from floater range -- in the 96th percentile for point guards.
- Harry Giles takes 53% of his shots from the mid-range -- in the 99th percentile for bigs. He's shooting 51% from that distance, which ranks in the 93rd percentile.
- Bogdan Bogdanovic is 84-of-166 (51%) from the mid-range, and that accuracy ranks in the 94th percentile for wing players.
- De'Aaron Fox is fouled on 18.2% of his shot attempts, ranking in the 100th percentile for point guards.
- Bogdan Bogdanovic draws a non-shooting foul on 1.8% of plays -- ranking in the 89th percentile for wings.
- Richaun Holmes averages a combined 3.0 blocks-plus-steals per 36 minutes.
- Richaun Holmes has the highest point differential (+5.4) on the Kings of anyone that has seen at least 200 minutes.
- Marvin Bagley has the worst point differential (-14.1) on the Kings of anyone that has seen at least 100 minutes.
- The Kings score 6.7 more points per 100 halfcourt plays with De'Aaron Fox on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 92nd percentile.
- The Kings' transition offense frequency increases by 1.9% with Buddy Hield on the court -- in the 90th percentile.
- The Kings' transition offense frequency decreases by 2.4% when Harry Giles is on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 10th percentile.
- Opponents shoot 2.4% more long mid-range jumpers with Richaun Holmes on the court -- a difference that ranks in the 94th percentile in terms of forcing that shot.
- Opponents shoot 3.0% fewer long mid-rangers with De'Aaron Fox on the court -- a difference that ranks in the fourth percentile in terms of forcing that shot.
- Opponents shoot 13.7% better at the rim with Harry Giles on the court -- a difference that ranks in the last percentile.
- Out of all Kings lineups that have seen 100+ possessions together, the best has a +14.5 net rating and contains De'Aaron Fox, Buddy Hield, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Harrison Barnes and Nemanja Bjelica. The worst is -37.0 and replaces Bogdanovic with Dewayne Dedmon.
- Lineups with Nemanja Bjelica at center are +13.3 points per 100 possessions.
- At home against bottom-10 teams, the Kings have the fourth-worst spread differential (-5.2).
- On the road against top-10 teams, the Kings have the fourth-highest spread differential (+3.8).
- Sacramento has the fourth-best spread differential (+7.2) on the second night of a back-to-back.
- Against opponents who are on the second night of a back-to-back, the Kings have the sixth-worst point differential (-4.8).
- Sacramento has the sixth-highest point differential (+4.5) since the All-Star break.
- Sacramento has the third-worst free-throw rate (17.5) in the league.
- The Kings take the fourth-fewest shots at the rim (32.7%).
- The Kings allow the fourth-most threes (37.5%) in the NBA.
