Sacramento Kings (8-29, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (20-18, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Francisco; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will aim to break its six-game road losing streak when the Kings take on Golden State.<\/p>\n
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The Warriors are 13-12 against conference opponents. Golden State scores 115.0 points while outscoring opponents by 1.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 1-6 against opponents in the Pacific Division. Sacramento ranks last in the Western Conference scoring averaging only 109.9 points per game while shooting 45.8%.<\/p>\n
The Warriors score 115.0 points per game, 6.6 fewer points than the 121.6 the Kings allow. The Kings average 10.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 fewer made shots on average than the 12.2 per game the Warriors give up.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. The Kings won the last meeting 121-116 on Nov. 6, with DeMar DeRozan scoring 25 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jimmy Butler III is shooting 50.6% and averaging 19.7 points for the Warriors. Stephen Curry is averaging 3.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dennis Schroder is shooting 40.9% and averaging 12.9 points for the Kings. Russell Westbrook is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 7-3, averaging 118.3 points, 43.3 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 2-8, averaging 105.3 points, 43.0 rebounds, 23.6 assists, 9.6 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Warriors: Gary Payton II: day to day (ankle), Seth Curry: out (thigh).<\/p>\n
Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle), 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 (8-29, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (20-18, eighth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[65031,7007,24541,7003,7000,65033,662,21125,6662,121,123,128,122,101,65032,14843,21124,2498],"class_list":["post-124887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-conference-opponents","tag-demar-derozan","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jimmy-butler-iii","tag-keegan-murray","tag-points-per-game","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-seth-curry","tag-stephen-curry","tag-the-kings","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}