{"id":211292,"date":"2026-03-09T06:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:41:27","slug":"indiana-plays-sacramento-looks-to-break-road-losing-streak-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211292\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana plays Sacramento, looks to break road losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana Pacers<\/a> (15-49, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings<\/a> (15-50, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Sacramento, California; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Indiana will look to stop its five-game road skid when the Pacers play Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The Kings are 10-22 on their home court. Sacramento is the worst team in the Western Conference shooting 33.5% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 5-27 in road games. Indiana gives up 120.0 points to opponents and has been outscored by 8.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Kings score 110.6 points per game, 9.4 fewer points than the 120.0 the Pacers allow. The Pacers average 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 fewer makes per game than the Kings allow.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the second time this season. The Pacers won 116-105 in the last matchup on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Russell Westbrook<\/a> is averaging 15.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 6.5 assists for the Kings. Precious Achiuwa<\/a> is averaging 15.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Andrew Nembhard<\/a> is averaging 17.1 points and 7.4 assists for the Pacers. Jarace Walker<\/a> is averaging 15.8 points and 7.6 rebounds while shooting 44.4% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 3-7, averaging 111.5 points, 44.8 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pacers: 1-9, averaging 113.2 points, 39.6 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 7.9 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out for season (back), Dylan Cardwell: out (ankle), De’Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), DeMar DeRozan: day to day (illness), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Keegan Murray<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

Pacers: T.J. McConnell<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Ivica Zubac: out (ankle), Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers (15-49, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (15-50, 15th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95673,80631,6999,97104,662,20784,27049,6662,121,123,128,122,97106,7005],"class_list":{"0":"post-211292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-andrew-nembhard","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-jarace-walker","12":"tag-keegan-murray","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-precious-achiuwa","15":"tag-russell-westbrook","16":"tag-sacramento","17":"tag-sacramento-headlines","18":"tag-sacramento-kings","19":"tag-sacramento-news","20":"tag-t-j-mcconnell","21":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211292","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=211292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211292\/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=211292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}