{"id":503991,"date":"2026-10-22T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503991\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:44:16","slug":"sacramento-and-portland-meet-in-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503991\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento and Portland meet in conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/portland-trail-blazers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> vs. Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Sacramento, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Portland plays Sacramento for a Western Conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Sacramento finished 22-60 overall, 14-38 in Western Conference games and 15-26 at home during the 2025-26 season. The Kings averaged 111.0 points per game last season, 17.6 from the free-throw line and 30.9 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Portland finished 42-40 overall and 29-23 in Western Conference play during the 2025-26 season. The Trail Blazers averaged 115.5 points per game last season, 48.3 in the paint, 19.2 off of turnovers and 13.8 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Kings: Ben Simmons: out for season (achilles), Dylan Cardwell: out (calf), Malik Monk: out (ankle), Maxime Raynaud: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Trail Blazers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chris-youngblood-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Youngblood<\/a>: out (ankle), Shaedon Sharpe: out (meniscus), Branden Carlson: out (concussion protocol).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Portland Trail Blazers vs. Sacramento Kings Sacramento, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Portland plays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[194927,80631,20784,7502,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-503991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-chris-youngblood","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503991","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=503991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}