Kings 104, Magic 100. That was the final score. I’m gonna go all Tarantino on you and do this thing backwards. Looking at the score you’d think ‘Sweet, a win against a 15-5 road team.’ Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah, but…

The 13-point lead that the Kings enjoyed with five minutes left suddenly turned into the all-too-familiar end of the game hideous crap fiasco. I am beginning to think that in the huddle during timeouts at the end of games the players lay down money to see who can make a) the worst overall play, b) the highest number of unholy plays and c) the most ill-timed, game-raping play. Without fail it is Mikki Moore, Quincy Douby or Francisco Garcia.

The Magic got it down to three with about 15 seconds left but the Kings failed miserably to completely blow it and won. Umm, yay? No, in all seriousness it was a nice win, but the late-game antics have become more than bothersome.

Some notes:

• Mikki Moore will forever hold a special place in my heart for throwing JJ Redick to the ground with five minutes left. I made a barely audible wheezing sound of joy when it happened, then a triumphant, bellowing guffaw when they showed the replay. As a North Carolina fan I have learned to hate that whiny schmo with every inch of my being. Mikki, you and I are brothers now.
• Kayte Christensen is very, very pretty.
• Spencer Hawes should stop shooting 3s. The fact that he made one tonight only encourages future forays into such tomfoolery.
• Dwight Howard is a freak. He got 29 and 15 on 11-13 fg and 7-8 ft and it seemed like he did it as an afterthought. He never once seemed to dominate the proceedings and yet there were his obscene numbers at the end. If he continues progressing like this he will be the single most important player in the entire league. He looks like Bill Russell but with offense out there. Truly sick, sick athletic shenanigans. He threw down a follow dunk with such ferocity that I may have peed a little.
• Dahntay Jones is growing on me like a rather entertaining fungus. Yeah, he went to Dook, I know. But he is playing really well right now. He hit about a 40-footer at the horn to end the first quarter, then followed it up with a stupid, no good springboard follow-up dunk in the second half.

Join me on Thursday when the Kings face the Grizzlies for a special live blog experience. I will be updating live as things happen and it should be a feast for your eye holes and possibly even your humor receptors. Be there…or DON’T.