Orlando Magic (28-25, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-44, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Magic -11; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento is looking to break its six-game home slide with a win over Orlando.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 9-19 in home games. Sacramento averages 13.9 turnovers per game and is 9-20 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 10-15 on the road. Orlando is 8-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Kings are shooting 46.2% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points lower than the 48.1% the Magic allow to opponents. The Magic\u2019s 46.2% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.2 percentage points lower than the Kings have allowed to their opponents (49.4%).<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: DeMar DeRozan is averaging 18.7 points and 3.8 assists for the Kings. Nique Clifford is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Desmond Bane is averaging 19.6 points and 4.2 assists for the Magic. Paolo Banchero is averaging 22.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 0-10, averaging 106.8 points, 42.9 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Magic: 5-5, averaging 112.5 points, 38.2 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 10.8 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Domantas Sabonis: day to day (back), Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Russell Westbrook: day to day (ankle), De\u2019Andre Hunter: out (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Malik Monk: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Magic: Jett Howard: day to day (ankle), Colin Castleton: out (thumb).<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n
\nBy The Associated Press<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t *::before {
\n content: “—”;
\n margin: 0 0.25em;
\n}<\/p>\n
.post-meta.single-post-meta > *:first-child::before {
\n content: “”;
\n margin: 0;
\n}<\/p>\n
.featured-image {
\n float: left;
\n margin: 0 12px 12px 0;
\n text-align: center;
\n}
\n.featured-img-alt {
\n font-size: .8em;
\n margin-bottom: 0 !important;
\n max-width: 280px;
\n text-align: center;
\n}
\n.enlarge-link {
\n text-align: center;
\n border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
\n padding: 0 0 1em;
\n font-size: .85em;
\n}
\n]]>\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic (28-25, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-44, 15th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-182915","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\/182915","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=182915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}