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Rudy Gobert added 13 points and 16 rebounds.
Mike Conley chipped in 11 points, nine assists and six rebounds.
Utah (52-20) clinched the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference
and will have home-court advantage throughout the playoffs after
finishing with the league's best regular-season record.
Terence Davis scored 20 points to lead the Kings. Damian Jones
chipped in 19 points. Buddy Hield added 13 points, nine assists
and seven rebounds for Sacramento.
The Kings (31-41) rested several key players in their final game
of the season. De'Aaron Fox, Tyrese Haliburton, Harrison Barnes,
Marvin Bagley III and Richaun Holmes were all sidelined, but
being short-handed did not faze Sacramento early in the game.
Utah played sloppy to start the first quarter. The Jazz had six
turnovers compared to only five baskets in the game's first nine
minutes.
Sacramento took advantage, ripping off an 11-0 run to take an
11-5 lead. Delon Wright assisted a basket to start the run and
capped it off with a 3-pointer. Utah climbed back to within a
point on a 3-point play from Clarkson. The Kings answered with a
14-3 run -- highlighted by three straight baskets from Davis --
to extend their lead to 25-13.
Clarkson helped Utah erase the deficit before the first quarter
ended. The Jazz scored on six straight possessions to mount a
15-0 run. Clarkson scored three baskets to help Utah reclaim a
28-25 lead going into the second quarter.
The Kings struggled to keep pace as the second quarter
progressed. After Sacramento trimmed Utah's lead to 50-45 on
back-to-back baskets from Wright and Jahmi'us Ramsey, the Jazz
closed the half on a 14-4 run to take a 64-49 lead. Conley
scored a pair of baskets and assisted another to fuel the run.
Utah put the game out of reach after opening the third quarter
with a 20-6 run. Clarkson capped the run with a pair of
3-pointers that gave the Jazz an 84-55 lead.
--Field Level Media
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