{"id":561530,"date":"2026-01-26T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:17:54","slug":"sacramento-visits-new-york-aims-to-stop-road-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561530\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento visits New York, aims to stop road slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento Kings (12-35, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (27-18, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p>New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will look to break its nine-game road losing streak when the Kings play New York.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks have gone 17-6 in home games. New York is eighth in the league averaging 117.8 points and is shooting 46.9% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings are 3-19 on the road. Sacramento is 9-16 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 13.9 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are shooting 46.9% from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points lower than the 49.1% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings average 10.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 fewer made shots on average than the 14.4 per game the Knicks allow.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Kings defeated the Knicks 112-101 in their last matchup on Jan. 15. DeMar DeRozan led the Kings with 27 points, and Mikal Bridges led the Knicks with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 20.5 points and 11.4 rebounds for the Knicks. Jalen Brunson is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Schroder is shooting 41.6% and averaging 12.8 points for the Kings. Malik Monk is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 4-6, averaging 108.5 points, 46.8 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 7.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: 4-6, averaging 114.8 points, 41.1 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.4 points.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Knicks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Zach LaVine: out (back).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings (12-35, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (27-18, fourth in the Eastern Conference)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,3213,1024,1409,288,563,3210,304,1267,1260,6,1136,191,3810,3806,477,3207,574,3212],"class_list":{"0":"post-561530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-demar-derozan","10":"tag-dennis-schroder","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-jalen-brunson","13":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","14":"tag-keegan-murray","15":"tag-knicks","16":"tag-malik-monk","17":"tag-mikal-bridges","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-knicks","21":"tag-newyork","22":"tag-newyorkknicks","23":"tag-sacramento-kings","24":"tag-the-kings","25":"tag-western-conference","26":"tag-zach-lavine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115960421113300323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}