{"id":183021,"date":"2026-02-18T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:33:13","slug":"sacramento-faces-orlando-on-6-game-home-skid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183021\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento faces Orlando on 6-game home skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento will attempt to break its six-game home losing streak when the Kings face Orlando. The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season. Sacramento&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic (28-25, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-44, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Magic -11; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento is looking to break its six-game home slide with a win over Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The Magic are 10-15 on the road. Orlando is 8-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s 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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>INJURIES: Kings: Domantas Sabonis: day to day (back), Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Russell Westbrook: day to day (ankle), De&#8217;Andre Hunter: out (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Malik Monk: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n<p>Magic: Jett Howard: day to day (ankle), Colin Castleton: out (thumb).<\/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 will attempt to break its six-game home losing streak when the Kings face Orlando. The teams meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-183021","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\/183021","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=183021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}