{"id":501977,"date":"2026-10-20T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501977\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:54:58","slug":"los-angeles-starts-season-at-home-against-sacramento-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501977\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles starts season at home against Sacramento | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Kings vs. Los Angeles Clippers<\/p>\n<p>Inglewood, California; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Clippers -4.5; over\/under is 228.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Clippers host the Sacramento Kings for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles finished 42-40 overall and 25-27 in Western Conference play a season ago. The Clippers allowed opponents to score 112.6 points per game and shoot 46.9% from the field last season.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento went 22-60 overall, 4-12 in Pacific Division action and 7-34 on the road a season ago. The Kings averaged 25.5 assists per game on 41.6 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Clippers: Max Strus: out (foot), Jordan Miller: out (shoulder), Bradley Beal: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Ben Simmons: out for season (achilles), Dylan Cardwell: out (calf), Maxime Raynaud: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beloitdailynews.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, Data Skrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings vs. Los Angeles Clippers Inglewood, California; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT LINE: Clippers -4.5; over\/under is 228.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[194406,7592,121,123,122,127],"class_list":["post-501977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-kings-clippers-preview","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501977","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=501977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}