Sacramento Kings (19-55, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (41-33, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Atlanta; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Hawks -14.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will try to keep its 11-game home win streak alive when the Hawks face Sacramento.<\/p>\n
The Hawks have gone 21-16 at home. Atlanta ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference with 32.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Johnson averaging 8.8.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 6-30 on the road. Sacramento is 3-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are shooting 47.3% from the field this season, 2.1 percentage points lower than the 49.4% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings are shooting 46.6% from the field, 0.8% lower than the 47.4% the Hawks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Hawks won 133-100 in the last meeting on Nov. 13. Johnson led the Hawks with 24 points, and Domantas Sabonis led the Kings with 12 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Johnson is scoring 22.9 points per game with 10.3 rebounds and 8.1 assists for the Hawks. Nickeil Alexander-Walker is averaging 23.5 points and 3.1 rebounds while shooting 53.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Precious Achiuwa is scoring 9.4 points per game and averaging 6.5 rebounds for the Kings. Maxime Raynaud is averaging 18.9 points and 8.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 8-2, averaging 121.2 points, 44.6 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 5-5, averaging 113.8 points, 44.3 rebounds, 28.1 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hawks: Jock Landale: out (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out for season (back), Russell Westbrook: out (foot), De’Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Nique Clifford: day to day (foot), Killian Hayes: day to day (finger), Drew Eubanks: out for season (thumb), Keegan Murray: out (ankle).<\/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":"By The Associated Press Sacramento Kings (19-55, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (41-33, sixth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-241516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241516","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=241516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}