{"id":511564,"date":"2026-10-29T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511564\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:20:16","slug":"new-orleans-takes-on-sacramento-seeks-to-stop-4-game-skid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511564\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans takes on Sacramento, seeks to stop 4-game skid"},"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=\"\">Sacramento Kings (0-4, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (0-4, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New Orleans; Thursday, 8 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=\"\">LINE: Pelicans -5.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans enters the matchup with Sacramento as losers of four straight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">New Orleans finished 26-56 overall, 17-34 in Western Conference games and 17-24 at home during the 2025-26 season. The Pelicans averaged 115.5 points per game while allowing opponents to score 120.0 last season.<\/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 and 14-38 in Western Conference play during the 2025-26 season. The Kings averaged 16.4 points off of turnovers, 14.8 second-chance points and 37.9 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Pelicans: Yves Missi: day to day (knee), Jordan Poole: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Kings: Ben Simmons: out for season (achilles), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/keegan-murray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a>: out (ankle), Dylan Cardwell: out (calf), 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=\"\">___<\/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 Sacramento Kings (0-4, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (0-4, 14th in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[80631,662,20784,33986,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-511564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-event_preview","tag-keegan-murray","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511564","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=511564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}