{"id":188657,"date":"2026-02-22T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:42:09","slug":"sacramento-visits-memphis-looks-to-break-road-slide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/188657\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento visits Memphis, looks to break road slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings<\/a> (12-46, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> (21-34, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Memphis, Tennessee; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will try to stop its 16-game road skid when the Kings play Memphis.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are 17-21 in conference games. Memphis is third in the Western Conference with 28.7 assists per game led by Cam Spencer<\/a> averaging 5.7.<\/p>\n

The Kings are 8-30 in Western Conference play. Sacramento has a 10-31 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are shooting 45.9% from the field this season, 3.6 percentage points lower than the 49.5% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings average 10.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.0 fewer made shots on average than the 14.3 per game the Grizzlies give up.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Grizzlies won the last matchup 129-125 on Feb. 5, with Ty Jerome<\/a> scoring 28 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Spencer is averaging 11.4 points and 5.7 assists for the Grizzlies. GG Jackson<\/a> is averaging 15.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 3.1 rebounds for the Kings. Malik Monk<\/a> is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 118.8 points, 39.7 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 11.6 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Kings: 0-10, averaging 108.1 points, 43.5 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 8.0 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Grizzlies: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: out for season (finger), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Cedric Coward: out (knee), Santi Aldama: out (knee), Kyle Anderson<\/a>: out (knee), Brandon Clarke<\/a>: out (calf).<\/p>\n

Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out for season (back), Dylan Cardwell: out (ankle), De’Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings (12-46, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (21-34, 11th in the Western Conference) Memphis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[43417,52937,7007,80631,79632,88585,7004,7016,20784,121,123,128,122,43421],"class_list":{"0":"post-188657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-brandon-clarke","9":"tag-cam-spencer","10":"tag-demar-derozan","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-gg-jackson","13":"tag-kyle-anderson","14":"tag-malik-monk","15":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-sacramento","18":"tag-sacramento-headlines","19":"tag-sacramento-kings","20":"tag-sacramento-news","21":"tag-ty-jerome"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188657","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=188657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}