New Orleans Pelicans (25-52, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (20-57, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> 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 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\u2019 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, while Precious Achiuwa scored 29 points for the Kings.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: DeMar DeRozan is shooting 49.3% and averaging 18.6 points for the Kings. Daeqwon Plowden 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\u2019Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Drew Eubanks: out for season (thumb), Malik Monk: day to day (shoulder), Keegan Murray: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Pelicans: Karlo Matkovic: out (back), Bryce McGowens: out (toe).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/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":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10116,111259,7,100867,9222,77586,7007,7003,59554,662,542,571,7004,129,7592,13510,33986,27049,6662,121,123,128,122,127,111384,5805,82135],"class_list":{"0":"post-250080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-bryce-mcgowens","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-daeqwon-plowden","12":"tag-data-skrive","13":"tag-deandre-hunter","14":"tag-demar-derozan","15":"tag-domantas-sabonis","16":"tag-drew-eubanks","17":"tag-keegan-murray","18":"tag-la-state-wire","19":"tag-louisiana","20":"tag-malik-monk","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nba-basketball","23":"tag-new-orleans","24":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","25":"tag-precious-achiuwa","26":"tag-russell-westbrook","27":"tag-sacramento","28":"tag-sacramento-headlines","29":"tag-sacramento-kings","30":"tag-sacramento-news","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-trey-murphy","33":"tag-zach-lavine","34":"tag-zion-williamson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250080","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=250080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}