{"id":826863,"date":"2015-02-08T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=36720"},"modified":"2015-02-08T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:00:33","slug":"game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 50 Preview: Phoenix Suns at Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Stauskas4-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35423\" src=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Stauskas4-3.jpg\" alt=\"Stauskas4-3\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Game time:<\/strong>\u00a06:00 p.m. PDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento, CA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast Information:<\/strong> KHTK Sports 1140 (Radio), Comcast SportsNet California (Local Television)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Sacramento Kings Probable Starters (17-32)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Ramon Sessions<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Ben McLemore<br \/>\nSF: Omri Casspi<br \/>\nPF:\u00a0Jason Thompson<br \/>\nC:\u00a0DeMarcus Cousins<\/p>\n<h3>Phoenix Suns\u00a0Probable Starters (29-23)<\/h3>\n<p>PG:\u00a0Isaiah Thomas<br \/>\nSG:\u00a0Goran Dragic<br \/>\nSF:\u00a0P.J. Tucker<br \/>\nPF: Markieff Morris<br \/>\nC: Miles Plumlee<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Three things to ponder<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1. Track\u00a0stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix&#8217;s guard-heavy roster ranks second in the league in fast break points. Without stout defender Darren Collison (hip), Ramon Sessions and the Kings backcourt will have their hands full slowing Goran Dragic and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Second\u00a0unit second\u00a0to none<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ex-King Isaiah Thomas, former dunk champion Gerald Green, and bigs Brandan Wright and Marcus Morris headline a bench that leads the NBA in scoring. Conversely, the Kings&#8217; reserves rank 26th in points per game surrendered. Now would be as good a time as any for Carl Landry, Derrick Williams\u00a0or another backup to step up on at least one side of the floor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Karl on the horizon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday reports swirled about the Kings and head coach George Karl joining forces. Amid the speculation, Sacramento was blown out by the Utah Jazz for their 11th loss in 12 games. It will be curious to see if the Kings revive their playoff chase now or simply wait for their savior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah Thomas will face his old team for the third time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610259261],"tags":[610259419,994249,5204276,1070735,8150447,522941,13286386,21689028,1419906,76563],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Game 50 Preview: Phoenix Suns at Sacramento Kings - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game 50 Preview: Phoenix Suns at Sacramento Kings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-08T18:00:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Stauskas4-3.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Game 50 Preview: Phoenix Suns at Sacramento Kings\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-02-08T18:00:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-02-08T18:00:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/cowbellkingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Stauskas4-3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Carl Landry\",\"Darren Collison\",\"DeMarcus Cousins\",\"Gerald Green\",\"Goran Dragic\",\"Isaiah Thomas\",\"Marcus Morris\",\"Omri Casspi\",\"Rudy Gay\",\"sacramento kings\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2015\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/game-50-preview-phoenix-suns-at-sacramento-kings\/\",\"name\":\"Game 50 Preview: Phoenix Suns at Sacramento Kings - 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