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When Harrison Barnes starts feeling it, the Sacramento Kings look for him in any spot he likes.
In another wild game with the Golden State Warriors, they needed every bit of Barnes’ best — including his timely block against Jonathan Kuminga in the tense closing moments.
Domantas Sabonis made a go-ahead dunk with 22 seconds left, Barnes scored a career-high 39 points with back-to-back baskets in crunch time, and the Kings held off the Warriors 134-133 in the NBA on Thursday night to split their season series at two games each.
“The way you have a high-powered offense is all five guys are going to have to make sacrifices at times,” Barnes said, crediting his team’s unselfishness.
Stephen Curry threw an alley-oop to Kuminga with 1:22 left that got Golden State within 132-131. Kuminga then rebounded a missed 3-pointer by De’Aaron Fox and dunked again for the lead.
After Sabonis’ dunk, Kuminga got blocked by Barnes with 18 seconds to go, hoping he’d get a whistle. Sacramento’s Kevin Huerter missed a pair of free throws with 15 seconds remaining to give the Warriors one last chance. Curry dribbled around the perimeter trying to get a look and lost the ball — a similar ending to the Warriors’ 124-123 loss Nov. 28 when he turned the ball over late.
Curry said he probably should have called a timeout. “The chaos of the moment you’re trying to make a play,” he said, “sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t.
