Los Angeles Lakers (23-13, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (9-30, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Monday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Lakers -9.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Western Conference foes Sacramento and Los Angeles meet on Monday.<\/p>\n The Kings are 1-7 against Pacific Division opponents. Sacramento is the worst team in the Western Conference averaging just 109.8 points per game.<\/p>\n The Lakers are 4-4 against the rest of their division. Los Angeles ranks ninth in the Western Conference allowing only 116.3 points while holding opponents to 48.6% shooting.<\/p>\n The Kings average 10.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.1 fewer makes per game than the Lakers allow (13.4). The Lakers average 11.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Kings give up.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the third time this season. The Lakers won 125-101 in the last matchup on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Zach LaVine is scoring 19.9 points per game and averaging 3.0 rebounds for the Kings. DeMar DeRozan is averaging 19.2 points and 3.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Luka Doncic is scoring 33.3 points per game and averaging 8.0 rebounds for the Lakers. LeBron James is averaging 1.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 2-8, averaging 104.9 points, 40.1 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.8 points per game.<\/p>\n Lakers: 4-6, averaging 107.4 points, 40.1 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 8.7 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/p>\n Lakers: Austin Reaves: out (calf), Adou Thiero: out (knee), Rui Hachimura: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers (23-13, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (9-30, 14th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[66895,847,7592,121,123,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-130009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-66895","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-headlines","13":"tag-sacramento-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130009","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=130009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}