Sacramento Kings (5-17, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (14-9, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Heat -8; over\/under is 239<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento is looking to stop its four-game slide with a victory over Miami.<\/p>\n The Heat are 10-2 in home games. Miami is second in the NBA with 29.9 assists per game. Davion Mitchell leads the Heat averaging 7.8.<\/p>\n The Kings are 2-10 in road games. Sacramento ranks ninth in the Western Conference scoring 49.0 points per game in the paint led by Domantas Sabonis averaging 11.8.<\/p>\n The Heat are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 2.1 percentage points lower than the 50.0% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings average 10.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.9 fewer made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Heat give up.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kel’el Ware is scoring 11.9 points per game with 10.5 rebounds and 0.6 assists for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 28.0 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 50.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n DeMar DeRozan is scoring 18.1 points per game and averaging 2.9 rebounds for the Kings. Malik Monk is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 7-3, averaging 119.5 points, 47.6 rebounds, 29.3 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Kings: 2-8, averaging 108.1 points, 39.5 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 9.8 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Heat: Tyler Herro: day to day (toe).<\/p>\n Kings: Dennis Schroder: out (hip), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n 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 (5-17, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Miami Heat (14-9, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41967,1111,3108,123,125,124,14596,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-73558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-41967","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}