Phoenix Suns (11-7, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (4-13, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Sacramento Kings face the Phoenix Suns in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
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The Kings are 3-11 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento allows 124.4 points and has been outscored by 12.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 3-2 against the rest of their division. Phoenix is fifth in the league averaging 15.2 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 38.1% from deep. Grayson Allen leads the team averaging 3.9 makes while shooting 44.7% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Kings are shooting 46.9% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 46.4% the Suns allow to opponents. The Kings average 117.1 points per game, 7.3 fewer points than the 124.4 the Kings allow to opponents.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. The Suns won the last matchup 120-116 on Oct. 23, with Devin Booker scoring 31 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Russell Westbrook is averaging 14.1 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists for the Kings. Dennis Schroder is averaging 21.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Royce O’Neale is scoring 11.5 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Suns. Dillon Brooks is averaging 29.0 points and 3.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 2-8, averaging 109.0 points, 39.3 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 7.9 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Suns: 8-2, averaging 117.2 points, 43.8 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 11.3 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Suns: Ryan Dunn: out (wrist), Mark Williams: out (knee), Grayson Allen: out (quadriceps), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (11-7, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (4-13, 13th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,24602,8225,6696,18705,24033,6693,459,6002,96762,14744,24034,10679,82,136947,124617,10627],"class_list":["post-305498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-devin-booker","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-grayson-allen","tag-jalen-green","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-points-per-game","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-ryan-dunn","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-the-kings","tag-the-suns","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}