Memphis Grizzlies (19-29, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-39, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento aims to break its nine-game skid when the Kings play Memphis.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 8-25 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento is 3-3 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies have gone 15-17 against Western Conference opponents. Memphis is seventh in the Western Conference with 14.4 fast break points per game led by Ja Morant averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n
The Kings score 110.2 points per game, 6.6 fewer points than the 116.8 the Grizzlies allow. The Grizzlies’ 45.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.6 percentage points lower than the Kings have given up to their opponents (49.1%).<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Grizzlies won 115-107 in the last matchup on Dec. 1. Zach Edey led the Grizzlies with 32 points, and DeMar DeRozan led the Kings with 23 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: DeRozan is averaging 19.2 points and 3.9 assists for the Kings. Zach LaVine is averaging 15 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jaren Jackson Jr. is averaging 19.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Grizzlies. Cedric Coward is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 1-9, averaging 110.1 points, 42.9 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 6.4 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 114.2 points, 43.8 rebounds, 28.4 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kings: Russell Westbrook: day to day (foot), Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Domantas Sabonis: out (back).<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: John Konchar: day to day (neck), Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Santi Aldama: day to day (knee), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Brandon Clarke: 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 (19-29, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (12-39, 15th in the Western Conference) Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[209839,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":["post-446395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-209839","tag-article","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}