Sacramento Kings (12-34, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (32-11, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will try to end its eight-game road skid when the Kings face Detroit.<\/p>\n
The Pistons are 18-5 in home games. Detroit scores 116.9 points while outscoring opponents by 6.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Kings have gone 3-18 away from home. Sacramento is 5-22 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Pistons average 11.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.4 fewer makes per game than the Kings give up (12.6). The Kings are shooting 46.7% from the field, 2.7% higher than the 44.0% the Pistons’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Pistons won the last meeting 136-127 on Dec. 24. Tobias Harris scored 24 points to help lead the Pistons to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cade Cunningham is averaging 25.3 points, 5.8 rebounds, 9.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 13.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook is scoring 15.5 points per game and averaging 6.1 rebounds for the Kings. Zach LaVine is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 109.6 points, 44.3 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 11.7 steals and 8.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 4-6, averaging 113.0 points, 42.1 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: Caris LeVert: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle).<\/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":"Sacramento Kings (12-34, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (32-11, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[73331,847,7592,121,123,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-147624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-73331","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\/147624","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=147624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147624\/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=147624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}