Sacramento Kings (12-35, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (27-18, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will look to break its nine-game road losing streak when the Kings play New York.<\/p>\n
The Knicks have gone 17-6 in home games. New York is eighth in the league averaging 117.8 points and is shooting 46.9% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 3-19 on the road. Sacramento is 9-16 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 13.9 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are shooting 46.9% from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points lower than the 49.1% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings average 10.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 fewer made shots on average than the 14.4 per game the Knicks allow.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Kings defeated the Knicks 112-101 in their last matchup on Jan. 15. DeMar DeRozan led the Kings with 27 points, and Mikal Bridges led the Knicks with 19 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 20.5 points and 11.4 rebounds for the Knicks. Jalen Brunson is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dennis Schroder is shooting 41.6% and averaging 12.8 points for the Kings. Malik Monk is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 4-6, averaging 108.5 points, 46.8 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 4-6, averaging 114.8 points, 41.1 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Knicks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Zach LaVine: out (back).<\/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 (12-35, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (27-18, fourth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[74188,847,7592,121,123,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-149752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-74188","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\/149752","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=149752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149752\/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=149752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}