Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles Clippers Preview Dec 22

Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles Clippers Betting Preview

WagerTalk NBA handicapper Andy Lang offers his Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles Clippers betting preview for Wednesday, December 22. At the time of posting, the Clippers are holding steady as 4.5-point road favorites in Sacramento, with the total at 218 points.

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Wed, Dec 22	NBA Betting Notes
Point Spread:	Los Angeles Clippers -4.5 at Sacramento Kings
Total:	218 Points
Game Time:	10:10pm ET / 7:10pm PT
Arena:	Golden 1 Center
TV:	NBA TV

Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles Clippers Analysis

The Los Angeles Clippers take a trip to Sacramento for a showdown with the Kings at Golden 1 Center on Wednesday night. The Clippers are now 16-15 after losing three straight games while playing the 2nd easiest schedule in the league. The 13-19 Kings have dealt with plenty of adversity recently and have split their last 10 games. These teams already met twice in early December with Kings winning both games, 124-115 in LA and 104-99 in Sacramento.

The Sacramento Kings will once again be without their best player in De’Aaron Fox, due to Covid. Davion Mitchell is also out with Covid and Richaun Holmes is out with an eye injury. This leaves the Kings without their top scorer and rebounder tonight.

On Monday night the short-handed Kings lost 113-98 to the Golden State Warriors. Sacramento has been great on offense as they rank 6th in points per game, but it’s been a completely different story on defense as they rank 2nd to last in defensive rating.

The Los Angeles Clippers will be looking to rebound from a 116-92 home loss to the San Antonio Spurs. It was Paul George’s first game back after missing a handful of games and he scored 25 points in 30 minutes of action. Ivica Zubac is the teams leading rebounder with 7.9 per game. The Clips are the exact opposite of the Kings as they sit at 4th in defensive rating but 25th in scoring offense.

The Los Angeles Clippers are six point road favorites with the total set at 219. Both teams have similar against the spread records at 14-18 and 13-18 respectively. The Kings are .500 over/under ATS, while the Clippers are 13-18.

Both these teams are in poor recent form. While the Kings have owned the Clippers recently, I’m not sure I can trust them without some of their best talent. The Clippers play great on defense and the Kings fast pace is usually led by De’Aaron Fox. Fox is out tonight so we will go with the under for our official play.

Official Play: UNDER 218 Points

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Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles Clippers Preview from GoldSheet

Sacramento has been touched by the Covid plague, as G De’Aaron Fox will miss this game. Fox is a large part of the King picture, scoring 21 ppg and handing out 5 assists per game. Still, note Sacto has won and covered 4 of last 5 games at the Golden 1 Center, defeating this same Clipper team in one of those triumphs, on Dec. 4, just a few weeks ago.

There might be a difference between this encounter and the last, as Paul George was out of that game and has returned to action, scoring 25 pts. against San Antonio on Monday. Now the Kings will be without Fox, who led the Kings with 24 pts. in previous meeting. But must beware that Kings’ Terrance Davis made 9 of 14 FGs for 23 pts., and Richuan Holmes grabbed 11 boards. And this time around LAC PF Marcus Morris is not available due to Covid protocol.

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