Washington Wizards (10-28, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (11-30, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Washington heads into the matchup against Sacramento after losing three games in a row.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 8-13 in home games. Sacramento is 3-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are 4-15 in road games. Washington is 6-3 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 15.6 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Kings average 110.2 points per game, 13.8 fewer points than the 124.0 the Wizards give up. The Wizards average 12.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.2 more makes per game than the Kings allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: DeMar DeRozan is shooting 50.8% and averaging 19.1 points for the Kings. Russell Westbrook is averaging 15.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bub Carrington is shooting 40.5% and averaging 9.5 points for the Wizards. Tre Johnson is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 3-7, averaging 104.5 points, 38.9 rebounds, 22.5 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wizards: 5-5, averaging 113.3 points, 44.9 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 8.8 steals and 8.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Wizards: Bilal Coulibaly: day to day (back), Cam Whitmore: out (shoulder), Trae Young: out (quad).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards (10-28, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (11-30, 14th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[68653,847,7592,121,123,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-134429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-68653","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\/134429","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=134429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134429\/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=134429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}