{"id":313909,"date":"2025-11-29T07:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313909\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:10:14","slug":"keyonte-george-and-lauri-markkanen-help-utah-jazz-snap-4-game-skid-with-win-over-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313909\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyonte George and Lauri Markkanen help Utah Jazz snap 4-game skid with win over Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Keyonte George<\/a> scored 31 points and Lauri Markkanen<\/a> added 28 to help the Utah Jazz<\/a> snap a four-game skid with a 128-119 victory over the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Brice Sensabaugh<\/a> had 20 points for the Jazz, who finished 1-3 in NBA Cup group play.<\/p>\n

Russell Westbrook<\/a>, the NBA leader in triple-doubles, had the 206th of his career with 16 points, a season-high 14 assists and 12 rebounds for Sacramento, which went winless in four NBA Cup games. Zach LaVine<\/a> led the Kings with 34 points, and Keegan Murray<\/a> had 23 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

Trailing by 11 at halftime, Sacramento trimmed the deficit to 67-65 on a 3-pointer from Murray but got no closer.<\/p>\n

George hit back-to-back 3-pointers and followed with a floater to help Utah regain a double-digit lead. The Jazz closed the third quarter on a 10-0 run, capped by Jusuf Nurkic<\/a>\u2019s layup for a 90-73 lead.<\/p>\n

Utah held Sacramento without a field goal for six minutes on its way to building a double-digit lead early in the second quarter. Markkanen made three baskets and hit a pair of free throws to fuel a 20-2 run that put the Jazz up 39-27.<\/p>\n

Sacramento cut the deficit to 55-51 on a 3-pointer by LaVine that punctuated a 10-2 run. Markkanen countered with a 3 and then beat the buzzer with a layup to extend Utah\u2019s lead to 62-51 going into halftime.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Kings: Host Memphis on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Jazz: Host Houston on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

John Coon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Keyonte George scored 31 points and Lauri Markkanen added 28 to help the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-313909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313909","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=313909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}