The losing skid continues for Sacramento, this time with a familiar face helping add to the misery.
The Sacramento Kings watched a past star bury them on the scoring front.
Worse, they watched De'Aaron Fox become the latest reason why the long losing slide continued.
Fox's 18 points helped spearhead the San Antonio Spurs' 139-122 romp of Sacramento -- which now becomes the Kings' 16th consecutive loss.
San Antonio even nearly covered the spread -- as the Spurs walked into Frost Bank Center as an overwhelming 18-point favorite and ends up winning by 17.
Fox is best known by Kings fans for helping end the franchise's long playoff drought back in the 2022-23 season. Which also came during the campaign the franchise introduced the widely popular "light the beam" postgame ritual after every Sacramento home win.
But Fox did his damage right away -- banking a 13-foot step back jump shot for the night's first points. Fox later got Victor Wembanyama going by dishing the assist to the 7-foot-5 star who finished with a nine-foot driving floater.
Fox came back to score the fourth of the first six points for San Antonio -- this one a two-pointer. The Spurs led 11-0 before rookie Maxime Raynaud broke up the early run, scoring on an eight-foot two-pointer.
Precious Achiuwa, however, did get one highlight moment in for the Kings -- which became an unsettling moment for Fox. Achiuwa delivered an epic poster dunk on the former Sacramento star.
Fox added five rebounds and committed on steal on the defensive side. He even got a chance to pose with current Kings Keegan Murray and DeMar DeRozan.
Malik Monk became another who delivered his own highlight worthy moment: This floater over "Wemby."
Monk added a viscous fast break slam dunk too that put the Kings up 40-37. He scored 19 off the bench for Sacramento to lead the reserves.
Murray and DeRozan led the way by scoring 20 points apiece. Raynaud, who is now handling inside post duties with Domantas Sabonis out for the rest of the season, dropped 16. Achiuwa finished with 14 on the night.
Doug McDermott earned more minutes amid a short-staffed Kings team -- scoring eight points in five minutes. Nique Clifford added eight points too.
But the Kings' latest loss drops the franchise to 12-46 overall.
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