{"id":594292,"date":"2026-02-10T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/594292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:49:19","slug":"sacramento-faces-utah-on-14-game-road-skid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/594292\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento faces Utah on 14-game road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/sacramento-kings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> (12-43, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/utah-jazz-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> (17-37, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Salt Lake City; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will try to break its 14-game road losing streak when the Kings play Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Jazz are 9-24 against Western Conference opponents. Utah has a 5-24 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Kings are 8-28 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento has a 3-4 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Jazz&#8217;s 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.1 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Kings give up. The Kings&#8217; 46.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.5 percentage points lower than the Jazz have given up to their opponents (49.0%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The teams play for the third time this season. The Jazz won the last matchup 128-119 on Nov. 29. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/keyonte-george-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keyonte George<\/a> scored 31 points to help lead the Jazz to the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: George is averaging 23.8 points and 6.5 assists for the Jazz. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ace-bailey-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ace Bailey<\/a> is averaging 15.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/demar-derozan-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeMar DeRozan<\/a> is averaging 18.7 points and 3.8 assists for the Kings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/malik-monk-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Monk<\/a> is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 2-8, averaging 113.3 points, 44.3 rebounds, 29.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Kings: 0-10, averaging 109.3 points, 43.0 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.1 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">INJURIES: Jazz: Keyonte George: day to day (ankle), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Kevin Love: day to day (rest).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Kings: Domantas Sabonis: day to day (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/keegan-murray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a>: out (ankle), De&#8217;Andre Hunter: out (eye), Zach LaVine: day to day (finger), Malik Monk: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings (12-43, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (17-37, 13th in the Western Conference) Salt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[224,7,3213,78812,3210,955,4056,1267,1407,6,986,477,4055,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-594292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-ace-bailey","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-demar-derozan","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-keegan-murray","13":"tag-keyonte-george","14":"tag-kings","15":"tag-malik-monk","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-sacramento","19":"tag-sacramento-kings","20":"tag-sacramentokings","21":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116045713574070173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594292","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=594292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}