Portugal’s Neemias Queta scored 10 points on Saturday in the Stockton Kings’ 144-119 home defeat to the Sioux Falls Skyforce in a North American Basketball League (NBA) G League game.
After eight consecutive wins, the Sacramento Kings’ secondary team lost again, in a game in which the Portuguese center racked up 10 points, four rebounds and a launch tackle, in 21 minutes on the field.
Chance Comanche led the Kings with 19 points, while Jamal Cain led the Skyforce with 32 points.
Despite the loss, the kings, already qualified for the playoffs, they maintain the lead of the Western Conference, with 22 wins and seven losses, with the Skyforce finishing fifth, with 18 triumphs and 12 losses.
Neemias, who went through Barreirense and Benfica during his training, extended with the Sacramento Kings for 2022/23, in a new two-way contract, allowing him to play in the first team and also in the secondary, the Stockton Kings, of the G-League .
The pole, at 22 years old and 2.13 meters tall, was the first Portuguese to join an NBA team after being selected 39th overall by the Sacramento Kings in the 2021 draft, which opens July 29 in New York. York was held.
As a rookie (2021/22), Neemias played 15 games for the Kings, scoring 45 points (3.0 average), 31 rebounds (2.1), eight tackles (0.5) and six assists (0, 4), in 119.34 minutes (8.0).
In 2022/23, the Portugal international played just four games in the NBA, totaling 12 points, nine rebounds, one assist and one tackle, in 25 minutes for the Kings, third in the NBA’s Western Conference (43 wins and 27 to lose).
Source: DN
