Memphis Grizzlies (8-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (5-15, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Sunday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis will try to keep its three-game road win streak alive when the Grizzlies take on Sacramento.<\/p>\n
The Kings have gone 4-13 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento gives up 123.3 points and has been outscored by 11.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 7-6 against Western Conference opponents. Memphis is sixth in the league with 46.1 rebounds per game. Santi Aldama paces the Grizzlies with 6.7.<\/p>\n
The Kings score 112.0 points per game, 5.0 fewer points than the 117.0 the Grizzlies give up. The Grizzlies\u2019 43.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 5.9 percentage points lower than the Kings have allowed to their opponents (49.8%).<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the second time this season. The Grizzlies defeated the Kings 137-96 in their last meeting on Nov. 21. Aldama led the Grizzlies with 29 points, and Zach LaVine led the Kings with 26 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: DeMar DeRozan is shooting 49.4% and averaging 18.2 points for the Kings. LaVine is averaging 34.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Aldama is averaging 13.8 points and 6.7 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 2-8, averaging 108.7 points, 39.9 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 8.5 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 4-6, averaging 111.5 points, 49.2 rebounds, 30.5 assists, 6.9 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Dennis Schroder: day to day (hip), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Javon Small: out (toe), Ja Morant: out (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (knee), Ty Jerome: out (calf).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies (8-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (5-15, 13th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[43417,7,7007,24541,7003,43419,43420,8336,7016,129,7592,121,123,128,122,43415,43416,127,43418,572,563,43421,5805],"class_list":["post-74479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-brandon-clarke","tag-california","tag-demar-derozan","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-javon-small","tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news","tag-santi-aldama","tag-scotty-pippen","tag-sports","tag-temetrius-morant","tag-tennessee","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-ty-jerome","tag-zach-lavine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479","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=74479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}