{"id":249743,"date":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249743\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","slug":"new-orleans-visits-sacramento-on-6-game-road-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249743\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans visits Sacramento on 6-game road slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (25-52, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings<\/a> (20-57, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

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

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pelicans -5.5; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans will try to end its six-game road skid when the Pelicans take on Sacramento.<\/p>\n

The Kings are 12-35 against conference opponents. Sacramento allows 121.1 points to opponents and has been outscored by 10.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans have gone 16-32 against Western Conference opponents. New Orleans ranks third in the Western Conference with 16.5 fast break points per game led by Trey Murphy III<\/a> averaging 3.3.<\/p>\n

The Kings score 110.9 points per game, 8.6 fewer points than the 119.5 the Pelicans allow. The Pelicans’ 46.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.0 percentage points lower than the Kings have given up to their opponents (49.5%).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last meeting on March 6 the Pelicans won 133-123 led by 23 points from Zion Williamson<\/a>, while Precious Achiuwa<\/a> scored 29 points for the Kings.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: DeMar DeRozan<\/a> is shooting 49.3% and averaging 18.6 points for the Kings. Daeqwon Plowden<\/a> is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Murphy is averaging 21.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pelicans. Williamson is averaging 20.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-6, averaging 112.4 points, 43.4 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pelicans: 3-7, averaging 110.7 points, 42.4 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 8.4 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out for season (back), Russell Westbrook: out (foot), De’Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Drew Eubanks<\/a>: out for season (thumb), Malik Monk: day to day (shoulder), Keegan Murray<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

Pelicans: Karlo Matkovic: out (back), Bryce McGowens<\/a>: out (toe).<\/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":"New Orleans Pelicans (25-52, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (20-57, 15th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[111259,100867,7007,59554,80631,662,20784,33986,27049,121,123,128,122,111258,82135],"class_list":{"0":"post-249743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-bryce-mcgowens","9":"tag-daeqwon-plowden","10":"tag-demar-derozan","11":"tag-drew-eubanks","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-keegan-murray","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","16":"tag-precious-achiuwa","17":"tag-sacramento","18":"tag-sacramento-headlines","19":"tag-sacramento-kings","20":"tag-sacramento-news","21":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","22":"tag-zion-williamson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249743","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=249743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249743\/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=249743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}