Stephen A Smith believes the Sacramento Kings would beat the Los Angeles Lakers in a playoff series

Stephen A Smith mentions that if a matchup were to happen in the playoffs, that the Sacramento Kings would beat the Los Angeles Lakers in a seven-game series. He continued debating this argument with Shanon Sharpe, one of his Colleagues, that the Lakers depend too much on Anthony Davis, who has struggled against playoff competitors.  

The Lakers have lost all three of their matchups against the Kings so far, with two of them being at the Crypto.com Arena. The last meeting was on Wednesday March 6th, were the Kings came into LA and beat the Lakers 130-120. The standouts of that game was De'Aaron Fox who had 44 and Domantas Sabonis who clocked in a triple double with 16 points, 20 Rebounds, and 12 assist. Going off of what Stephen A said about the Lakers depending too much on Davis who has struggled against playoff competitors. In the three games they have played each other Davis has only eclipsed scoring 20 points or more once when he had 30 points all the way back in their first matchup. The other two times he scored less than 15 points in both of them.  

The Lakers have one more matchup with the Kings in the regular season when they go to Sacramento on Wednesday March 13th. As the standings sit right now the Kings are sitting at the 7th seed right now and the Lakers are the 9th seed. With only around 17 games left the standings can definitely change to were they play each other in a seven-game series. However, the most likely outcome would be these two teams meeting in the play-in-tournament.

The NBA playoffs are all about matchups and matching up with the right opponent. Right now the Kings have the Lakers number and are a good matchup for them with there fast-pace play style. However, I would never count out the Lakers with LeBron James still playing at a high level at the age of 39. It will definitely be a fun matchup between them if they were to meet up in the Playoffs.