--With a win over the Kings, the Thunder won for the fifth time in the last six games while being without leading scorer Kevin Durant the entire time. They were without second leading scorer Jeff Green for four of those games, although the forward returned against the Kings to score 22 points. Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks is a former Kings assistant and native of Lathrop, a town approximately an hour away from Sacramento.
--After giving up just 11 turnovers against Denver on Sunday in what was a key to their rare win, the Kings had 22 against Oklahoma City. The team's young frontcourt of Jason Thompson and Spencer Hawes combined for 11 turnovers. QUOTE TO NOTE: "We did a lot of good things. However, we did a lot of bad things too. We had a lot of turnovers, forced turnovers. We were throwing the ball and not taking our time. If we didn't have those 22 turnovers, we would have definitely won this game." -- Kings guard Bobby Jackson, on his team's 99-98 loss to Oklahoma City on Tuesday night in which the Kings had 22 turnovers.
