{"id":214434,"date":"2026-03-11T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214434\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:29:07","slug":"westbrook-and-sacramento-take-on-charlotte-in-non-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214434\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbrook and Sacramento take on Charlotte in non-conference play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (33-33, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings<\/a> (16-50, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

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

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Hornets -12.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Charlotte Hornets visit the Sacramento Kings in non-conference action.<\/p>\n

The Kings have gone 11-22 at home. Sacramento has a 3-4 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Hornets are 19-16 on the road. Charlotte is second in the Eastern Conference with 46.3 rebounds per game led by Moussa Diabate<\/a> averaging 8.7.<\/p>\n

The Kings average 10.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.9 fewer makes per game than the Hornets give up (12.9). The Hornets’ 45.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.5 percentage points lower than the Kings have allowed to their opponents (49.4%).<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Russell Westbrook<\/a> is shooting 43.1% and averaging 15.5 points for the Kings. Malik Monk<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kon Knueppel<\/a> is averaging 19.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller<\/a> is averaging 21.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-6, averaging 113.6 points, 45.8 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 8.7 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hornets: 7-3, averaging 117.2 points, 47.8 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.0 points.<\/p>\n

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

Hornets: Liam McNeeley<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Coby White: day to day (calf), Tidjane Salaun: day to day (knee).<\/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":"Charlotte Hornets (33-33, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (16-50, 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":[98367,20519,80631,662,98365,98366,7004,39323,20784,6662,121,123,128,122],"class_list":["post-214434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-brandon-miller","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-event_preview","tag-keegan-murray","tag-kon-knueppel","tag-liam-mcneeley","tag-malik-monk","tag-moussa-diabate","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214434","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=214434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214434\/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=214434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}