{"id":171909,"date":"2026-02-10T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/171909\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:19:16","slug":"sacramento-faces-utah-on-14-game-road-skid-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/171909\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento faces Utah on 14-game road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento heads into a matchup with Utah as losers of 14 road games in a row. Wednesday&#8217;s meeting will be the third of the season between the two teams. Utah is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Kings (12-43, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (17-37, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Salt Lake City; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will try to break its 14-game road losing streak when the Kings play Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz are 9-24 against Western Conference opponents. Utah has a 5-24 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings are 8-28 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento has a 3-4 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz&#8217;s 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.1 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Kings give up. The Kings&#8217; 46.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.5 percentage points lower than the Jazz have given up to their opponents (49.0%).<\/p>\n<p>The teams play for the third time this season. The Jazz won the last matchup 128-119 on Nov. 29. Keyonte George scored 31 points to help lead the Jazz to the victory.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: George is averaging 23.8 points and 6.5 assists for the Jazz. Ace Bailey is averaging 15.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>DeMar DeRozan is averaging 18.7 points and 3.8 assists for the Kings. Malik Monk is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 2-8, averaging 113.3 points, 44.3 rebounds, 29.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: 0-10, averaging 109.3 points, 43.0 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.1 points.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Jazz: Keyonte George: day to day (ankle), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Kevin Love: day to day (rest).<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Domantas Sabonis: day to day (back), Keegan Murray: out (ankle), De&#8217;Andre Hunter: out (eye), Zach LaVine: day to day (finger), Malik Monk: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento heads into a matchup with Utah as losers of 14 road games in a row. Wednesday&#8217;s meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-171909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171909","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=171909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}