New Orleans Pelicans (25-52, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (20-57, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Sacramento, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Pelicans -5.5; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans will try to end its six-game road skid when the Pelicans take on Sacramento.<\/p>\n The Kings are 12-35 against conference opponents. Sacramento allows 121.1 points to opponents and has been outscored by 10.2 points per game.<\/p>\n The Pelicans have gone 16-32 against Western Conference opponents. New Orleans ranks third in the Western Conference with 16.5 fast break points per game led by Trey Murphy III averaging 3.3.<\/p>\n The Kings score 110.9 points per game, 8.6 fewer points than the 119.5 the Pelicans allow. The Pelicans\u2019 46.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.0 percentage points lower than the Kings have given up to their opponents (49.5%).<\/p>\n The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last meeting on March 6 the Pelicans won 133-123 led by 23 points from Zion Williamson, while Precious Achiuwa scored 29 points for the Kings.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: DeMar DeRozan is shooting 49.3% and averaging 18.6 points for the Kings. Daeqwon Plowden is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Murphy is averaging 21.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pelicans. Williamson is averaging 20.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 4-6, averaging 112.4 points, 43.4 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 6.1 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.2 points per game.<\/p>\n Pelicans: 3-7, averaging 110.7 points, 42.4 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 8.4 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Kings: Domantas Sabonis: out for season (back), Russell Westbrook: out (foot), De\u2019Andre Hunter: out for season (eye), Zach LaVine: out for season (finger), Drew Eubanks: out for season (thumb), Malik Monk: day to day (shoulder), Keegan Murray: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Pelicans: Karlo Matkovic: out (back), Bryce McGowens: out (toe).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans (25-52, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (20-57, 15th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[2889,7,7214,160,18687,76733,1219,3213,4672,11057,3210,4495,3808,1267,6,446,478,470,4073,4072,675,10745,254,986,477,66,4203,3212,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-696320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-athlete-injuries","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bryce-mcgowens","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-daeqwon-plowden","13":"tag-data-skrive","14":"tag-deandre-hunter","15":"tag-demar-derozan","16":"tag-domantas-sabonis","17":"tag-drew-eubanks","18":"tag-keegan-murray","19":"tag-la-state-wire","20":"tag-louisiana","21":"tag-malik-monk","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-nba-basketball","24":"tag-new-orleans","25":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","26":"tag-neworleans","27":"tag-neworleanspelicans","28":"tag-pelicans","29":"tag-precious-achiuwa","30":"tag-russell-westbrook","31":"tag-sacramento","32":"tag-sacramento-kings","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-trey-murphy","35":"tag-zach-lavine","36":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116342151185766308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696320","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=696320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}