Sacramento Kings (8-26, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (19-14, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Friday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Suns -12; over\/under is 228.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento will try to stop its five-game road skid when the Kings face Phoenix.<\/p>\n The Suns are 7-4 against Pacific Division teams. Phoenix has a 3-4 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n The Kings are 1-5 against the rest of their division. Sacramento is 7-19 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n The Suns average 115.1 points per game, 7.2 fewer points than the 122.3 the Kings give up. The Kings average 10.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 fewer made shots on average than the 12.5 per game the Suns give up.<\/p>\n The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Suns defeated the Kings 112-100 in their last meeting on Nov. 27. Mark Williams led the Suns with 21 points, and Keegan Murray led the Kings with 19 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Collin Gillespie is averaging 14 points and 5.1 assists for the Suns. Devin Booker is averaging 32.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Russell Westbrook is scoring 14.4 points per game with 6.6 rebounds and 7.0 assists for the Kings. DeMar DeRozan is averaging 25.0 points and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 56.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 6-4, averaging 112.4 points, 44.8 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 10.1 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Kings: 2-8, averaging 109.6 points, 42.3 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 9.6 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Suns: Grayson Allen: day to day (knee), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n Kings: Zach LaVine: out (ankle), Domantas Sabonis: out (knee).<\/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 (8-26, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (19-14, seventh in the Western Conference) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[219809,5229,5643,347,1587,6326,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-486695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-219809","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115824588425106259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486695","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=486695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486695\/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=486695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}