9:10 pm
November 2

Kings @ Jazz

Who will WIN this matchup?

Sacramento Kings (3-3)

@ Utah Jazz (5-1)

 

Current odds:

Sacramento Kings: (+340)

Utah Jazz: (-440)

 

• The spread for the game is Utah by 9 points.

• With the game on the line in Milwaukee on Sunday night, Donovan Mitchell stepped up to bring the Utah Jazz home victorious. The All-Star guard ended the Bucks’ late surge by scoring two straight buckets after the defending champions had whittled a 17-point deficit down to just four with 1:39 left. Mitchell ended up scoring 11 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter to help Utah bounce back from its first loss of the season in Chicago the previous night.

• Utah’s opponent in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night, the Sacramento Kings, would have won a third straight road game if their star had made the clutch shots instead of the Mavericks’ superstar in Dallas. But Luka Doncic hit a key 3-pointer from the logo on a night the Kings’ De’Aaron Fox struggled. Fox only hit 5-of-16 shots for 14 points in that loss. On the season, he’s just shooting 37.7 percent overall and 17.1 percent from 3-point range.

• The Kings will need all the help they can get to reverse things in Utah, where they conclude a four-game road swing. The Jazz are off to one of their best starts in years and have defeated Sacramento five times in a row. Utah’s last victory against the Kings came at Golden 1 Center a week and a half ago. In that 110-101 victory, Mitchell scored 27 points while Rudy Gobert contributed 17 points and 20 rebounds.

• That win also showed the Jazz they can handle the pressure of a team playing small ball against them in an effort to diminish the advantages of the 7-foot-1 Gobert. Sacramento used a smaller lineup in the final minutes while trying to rally.

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