Sacramento Kings (6-17, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (5-18, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento faces the Indiana Pacers after Zach LaVine scored 42 points in the Kings’ 127-111 win over the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are 4-8 on their home court. Indiana is last in the Eastern Conference shooting 32.9% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 3-10 on the road. Sacramento is 6-10 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 13.2 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are shooting 43.4% from the field this season, 6.6 percentage points lower than the 50.0% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings are shooting 46.6% from the field, 1.2% lower than the 47.8% the Pacers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pascal Siakam is averaging 24.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Pacers. Bennedict Mathurin is averaging 28.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook is scoring 13.4 points per game and averaging 6.7 rebounds for the Kings. LaVine is averaging 8.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 4-6, averaging 114.1 points, 40.5 rebounds, 23.6 assists, 8.2 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 3-7, averaging 109.8 points, 39.6 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 9.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pacers: Quenton Jackson: day to day (hamstring), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Ben Sheppard: day to day (calf), Aaron Nesmith: out (knee), Kam Jones: day to day (back), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Kings: Dennis Schroder: day to day (hip), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/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":"Sacramento Kings (6-17, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (5-18, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[48212,847,10116,7592,121,123,122,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-85637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-48212","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85637","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=85637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}