Sacramento Kings (3-10, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (8-4, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Sunday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento enters the matchup against San Antonio as losers of five games in a row.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 4-4 in Western Conference games. San Antonio ranks fifth in the Western Conference in rebounding averaging 45.8 rebounds. Victor Wembanyama paces the Spurs with 12.9 boards.<\/p>\n
The Kings have gone 2-8 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento is 2-0 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Spurs average 118.4 points per game, 6.1 fewer points than the 124.5 the Kings allow. The Kings are shooting 46.7% from the field, 2.2% higher than the 44.5% the Spurs’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Stephon Castle is averaging 18.4 points, 6.3 rebounds, 7.8 assists and 1.8 steals for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 26.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook is averaging 14.4 points, 6.5 rebounds and 6.4 assists for the Kings. Domantas Sabonis is averaging 34 points and 11 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 117.6 points, 44.1 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Kings: 2-8, averaging 113.0 points, 40.4 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 7.8 steals and 2.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: Dylan Harper: out (calf).<\/p>\n
Kings: Keegan Murray: out (thumb).<\/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":"Sacramento Kings (3-10, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (8-4, sixth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[182406,5229,347,6326,7202,7203,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-380655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-182406","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115553635177265903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}