Miami Heat (22-21, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-31, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Miami travels to Sacramento looking to end its four-game road slide.<\/p>\n
The Kings have gone 9-14 in home games. Sacramento gives up 120.5 points and has been outscored by 9.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 7-14 in road games. Miami ranks sixth in the NBA with 45.7 rebounds per game led by Kel’el Ware averaging 9.8.<\/p>\n
The Kings are shooting 46.6% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points higher than the 46.2% the Heat allow to opponents. The Heat average 119.3 points per game, 1.2 fewer than the 120.5 the Kings give up to opponents.<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Kings defeated the Heat 127-111 in their last meeting on Dec. 7. Zach LaVine led the Kings with 42 points, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. led the Heat with 27 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Russell Westbrook is averaging 15.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and seven assists for the Kings. DeMar DeRozan is averaging 20.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 9.7 rebounds for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-6, averaging 109.2 points, 39.6 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 4-6, averaging 113.8 points, 45.3 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 8.8 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Heat: Tyler Herro: out (toe).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (22-21, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-31, 14th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[71339,7592,121,123,122,127,1704],"class_list":{"0":"post-141936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-heat-kings-preview","9":"tag-nba-basketball","10":"tag-sacramento","11":"tag-sacramento-headlines","12":"tag-sacramento-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141936","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=141936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}