Sacramento Kings (19-55, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (41-33, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Atlanta; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will try to keep its 11-game home win streak alive when the Hawks face Sacramento.<\/p>\n
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The Hawks have gone 21-16 at home. Atlanta ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference with 32.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Johnson averaging 8.8.<\/p>\n
The Kings are 6-30 on the road. Sacramento is 3-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are shooting 47.3% from the field this season, 2.1 percentage points lower than the 49.4% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings are shooting 46.6% from the field, 0.8% lower than the 47.4% the Hawks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. The Hawks won 133-100 in the last meeting on Nov. 13. Johnson led the Hawks with 24 points, and Domantas Sabonis led the Kings with 12 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Johnson is scoring 22.9 points per game with 10.3 rebounds and 8.1 assists for the Hawks. Nickeil Alexander-Walker is averaging 23.5 points and 3.1 rebounds while shooting 53.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Precious Achiuwa is scoring 9.4 points per game and averaging 6.5 rebounds for the Kings. Maxime Raynaud is averaging 18.9 points and 8.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 8-2, averaging 121.2 points, 44.6 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 5-5, averaging 113.8 points, 44.3 rebounds, 28.1 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hawks: Jock Landale: out (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out for season (back), Russell Westbrook: out (foot), De’Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Nique Clifford: day to day (foot), Killian Hayes: day to day (finger), Drew Eubanks: out for season (thumb), Keegan Murray: out (ankle).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings (19-55, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (41-33, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[208,7,4672,11057,1409,2990,3692,3210,1019,4056,3538,6,379,854,4485,10745,254,986,477,4055,3207,574,3212],"class_list":["post-683689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-drew-eubanks","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-jock-landale","tag-keegan-murray","tag-killian-hayes","tag-kings","tag-maxime-raynaud","tag-nba","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-nique-clifford","tag-points-per-game","tag-precious-achiuwa","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings","tag-the-kings","tag-western-conference","tag-zach-lavine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116305389517668677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683689","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=683689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}