Sacramento Kings (12-42, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (14-40, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will aim to stop its 13-game road skid when the Kings take on New Orleans.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 8-26 against conference opponents. New Orleans allows 120.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 6.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 8-27 in Western Conference play. Sacramento has a 3-4 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans score 114.6 points per game, 6.0 fewer points than the 120.6 the Kings give up. The Kings average 10.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.3 fewer made shots on average than the 14.8 per game the Pelicans allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is averaging 22.2 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey is averaging 22.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook is averaging 15.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Kings. DeMar DeRozan is averaging 18.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 4-6, averaging 112.5 points, 44.5 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 0-10, averaging 110.8 points, 42.5 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 6.8 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/p>\n
Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out (back), Keegan Murray: out (ankle), De’Andre Hunter: out (eye), Zach LaVine: out (finger), Malik Monk: out (illness).<\/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 (12-42, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (14-40, 14th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[79252,1297,7,6,446,478,470,4073,4072,675,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-590360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-79252","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-new-orleans","14":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","15":"tag-neworleans","16":"tag-neworleanspelicans","17":"tag-pelicans","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034744092437340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590360","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=590360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}