Sacramento Kings (5-16, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (13-5, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Houston; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento is looking to end its three-game losing streak with a victory over Houston.<\/p>\n
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The Rockets have gone 6-4 against Western Conference teams. Houston leads the Western Conference in rebounding, averaging 49.2 boards. Steven Adams paces the Rockets with 9.4 rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Kings have gone 4-14 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento allows 122.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 11.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 2.0 percentage points lower than the 49.9% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings average 111.8 points per game, 0.6 more than the 111.2 the Rockets allow.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Alperen Sengun is averaging 22.8 points, 9.1 rebounds and 7.3 assists for the Rockets. Kevin Durant is averaging 32 points, nine rebounds and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Zach LaVine is shooting 49.1% and averaging 20.7 points for the Kings. DeMar DeRozan is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 8-2, averaging 120.9 points, 49.4 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Kings: 2-8, averaging 108.6 points, 39.8 rebounds, 25.5 assists, 9.5 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Dorian Finney-Smith: out (ankle), Tari Eason: out (oblique).<\/p>\n
Kings: Dennis Schroder: day to day (hip), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/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":"Sacramento Kings (5-16, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (13-5, third in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[44390,49,48,18701,24602,18705,6702,83288,8223,6695,459,96762,10679,82,42562,18721,136947,10627,18711],"class_list":["post-320080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-demar-derozan","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-dorian-finney-smith","tag-fred-vanvleet","tag-houston-rockets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-points-per-game","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-steven-adams","tag-tari-eason","tag-the-kings","tag-western-conference","tag-zach-lavine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320080","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=320080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}