San Antonio Spurs vs. Sacramento Kings: Player props, injury report and prediction | NBA

Victor Wembanyama, caller from a 52-point nighttime of his own, leads a San Antonio Spurs broadside connected a six-game winning tally into an NBA Cup radical game astatine Golden 1 Center connected Friday night, wherever the Sacramento Kings are inactive searching for a location win.

San Antonio are 6-2 and 5th successful the Western Conference, portion Sacramento are 1-7 and 14th aft losing each 3 location games, and the Spurs person already beaten the Kings by 27 points this season.

Sacramento Kings vs. San Antonio Spurs signifier and outlook

San Antonio person won six successful a enactment since opening the play with defeats to Oklahoma City and Houston, and the latest triumph implicit Dallas was the closest, a 17-point half-time pb shrinking to a azygous constituent by the last buzzer.

Wembanyama supplied 52 points, 24 rebounds and 8 blocks successful that game, and the Spurs held connected contempt making lone 5 of 36 three-pointers, truthful the offence tin past a acold nighttime from the perimeter portion helium dominates the paint.

Sacramento's lone triumph came astatine Dallas, and the Kings followed it by losing astatine location to the Lakers by 13 points, a crippled successful which the seat scored lone 23 points and Los Angeles made 34 escaped throws.

The ratio numbers explicate the gulf, with the Spurs astatine +8.0 successful nett standing and the Kings astatine -12.9, a spread built mostly connected the antiaircraft end, and though some teams sprout astir identically from the field, San Antonio crook the shot implicit acold little often, which leaves them with much possessions that extremity successful a shot.

Outside Wembanyama, Dylan Harper's 21 points and Stephon Castle's 17 points and 10 rebounds against Dallas amusement a young backcourt that tin stock the scoring load.

Sacramento's problems commencement astatine the rim, since the Kings were allowing 56.6 points successful the overgarment per crippled going into Wednesday, the astir successful the league, and a Spurs broadside with a wide rebounding borderline volition trial that weakness.

The Kings tin people astatine home, with 2 of their 3 games astatine Golden 1 Center clearing 230 combined points, but they slice aft the break, averaging 59.0 first-half points against 52.7 successful the 2nd half.

This is the archetypal of 7 consecutive location games for Sacramento connected the NBA schedule, portion San Antonio question to Portland connected Saturday for the 2nd nighttime of a back-to-back.

Kings vs. Spurs squad quality and rotations

Tobias Harris (calf) and Jayden Quaintance (knee) are some retired for San Antonio, but neither featured against Dallas, truthful Mitch Johnson's rotation should look the aforesaid arsenic it did connected Wednesday.

Expect De'Aaron Fox, Castle, Harper, Devin Vassell and Wembanyama to commencement again, with Keldon Johnson, Julian Champagnie, Harrison Barnes and Luke Kornet the seat players who got minutes successful a nine-man rotation that near Carter Bryant, Tarris Reed Jr. and Jordan McLaughlin retired of the crippled against the Mavericks.

Sacramento are without Keegan Murray (ankle), Maxime Raynaud (knee) and Ben Simmons, who is retired for the play with an Achilles injury, portion Daeqwon Plowden missed Wednesday done illness.

Dylan Cardwell made his play debut disconnected the seat against the Lakers, and Doug Christie is apt to instrumentality with Darius Acuff Jr., Zach LaVine, De'Andre Hunter, Precious Achiuwa and Domantas Sabonis, the 5 who started connected Wednesday, with Malik Monk starring the seat with 13 points.

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Sabonis posted 20 points and 8 assists connected 10-of-16 shooting successful the archetypal meeting, truthful however Wembanyama defends him successful the overgarment volition signifier however the Kings' offence flows, particularly arsenic Wembanyama blocked 5 shots successful lone 27 minutes that night.

Fox, whom Sacramento drafted 5th wide successful 2017 earlier trading him to San Antonio successful February 2025, faces Acuff, who turns 20 connected 16 November and became the archetypal subordinate since Shaquille O'Neal successful 1992-93 to people 150 points successful his archetypal six NBA games, though helium changeable 8 of 24 against the Lakers.

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Head-to-head grounds betwixt the Kings and Spurs

San Antonio person won their past 2 regular-season meetings with Sacramento by 28 and 27 points, and the October crippled was efficaciously settled aft Wembanyama dominated the archetypal quarter.

The Spurs led 80-54 astatine half-time, and though the Kings matched them implicit the 2nd half, the harm was done by then.

The Spurs besides won the rebounding conflict 46-38 that night, which fits the signifier some teams person shown since, with San Antonio's borderline connected the solid and Sacramento's occupation protecting the paint.

Our Kings vs. Spurs prediction and betting tips

San Antonio's defence is the decisive edge, since a Kings squad conceding 122.3 points per crippled astatine Golden 1 Center volition conflict to support gait with a Spurs onslaught built astir Wembanyama successful this form.

Sacramento's champion accidental of a competitory crippled is simply a beardown archetypal quarter, since they trailed by 12 aft 1 play successful October and ne'er recovered, and their wont of fading aft half-time leaves small country to pursuit the crippled late.