\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Nembhard had 28 points and a season-high 12 assists, and helped Indiana regain control in the fourth quarter as the Pacers beat the Sacramento Kings 116-105 on Monday night.Bennedict Mathurin added 25 points and Pascal Siakam scored 23 for the Pacers, who matched a season best with their second straight win and improved to 6-18 overall. Indiana has won four of six after starting 2-16.Russell Westbrook finished with 24 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds for the Kings in his fourth triple-double this season and the 207th of his career. DeMar DeRozan added 20 points and Zach LaVine had 16.Indiana was in control much of the way, extending a 66-51 halftime lead to 77-58 on Nembhard’s layup with 8 1\/2 minutes remaining in the third quarter. But the Kings used a 37-point quarter to trim it to 92-88 going into the fourth, then reeled off an 11-0 run to open a 101-97 lead on Westbrook’s basket midway through the period.Nembhard made a 3-pointer to stem the tide and Mathurin followed with one of his own to put Indiana back on top at 103-101. Nembhard followed with another 3 and a layup to extend the Pacers’ lead to 108-101.The Kings (6-18) were coming off a victory in Miami on Saturday and trying to win two in a row for the second time this season.Up nextKings: Host the Denver Nuggets on Thursday.Pacers: Visit the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tINDIANAPOLIS \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Andrew Nembhard had 28 points and a season-high 12 assists, and helped Indiana regain control in the fourth quarter as the Pacers beat the Sacramento Kings 116-105 on Monday night.<\/p>\n Bennedict Mathurin added 25 points and Pascal Siakam scored 23 for the Pacers, who matched a season best with their second straight win and improved to 6-18 overall. Indiana has won four of six after starting 2-16.<\/p>\n Russell Westbrook finished with 24 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds for the Kings in his fourth triple-double this season and the 207th of his career. DeMar DeRozan added 20 points and Zach LaVine had 16.<\/p>\n Indiana was in control much of the way, extending a 66-51 halftime lead to 77-58 on Nembhard’s layup with 8 1\/2 minutes remaining in the third quarter. But the Kings used a 37-point quarter to trim it to 92-88 going into the fourth, then reeled off an 11-0 run to open a 101-97 lead on Westbrook’s basket midway through the period.<\/p>\n Nembhard made a 3-pointer to stem the tide and Mathurin followed with one of his own to put Indiana back on top at 103-101. Nembhard followed with another 3 and a layup to extend the Pacers’ lead to 108-101.<\/p>\n The Kings (6-18) were coming off a victory in Miami on Saturday and trying to win two in a row for the second time this season.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Kings: Host the Denver Nuggets on Thursday.<\/p>\n Pacers: Visit the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a><\/strong> | Download our app<\/a><\/strong> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a><\/strong> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Nembhard had 28 points and a season-high 12 assists, and helped Indiana regain control in the fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[17374,38124,1339,151407,1805,33353,122103,2862,1267,21132,5617,1260,5999,449,21596,3143,5950,62,2450,67,132,68,3355],"class_list":{"0":"post-434812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-andrew-nembhard","9":"tag-assist","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bennedict-mathurin","12":"tag-control","13":"tag-fourth-quarter","14":"tag-halftime-lead","15":"tag-indiana","16":"tag-indiana-pacers","17":"tag-king","18":"tag-layup","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-pacers","21":"tag-point","22":"tag-russell-westbrook","23":"tag-sacramento-kings","24":"tag-season","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-thursday","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-victory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115687753258106676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434812","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=434812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}