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Sacramento Kings vs Oklahoma City Thunder Best Bet: Kings to Keep Rolling

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Sacramento Kings vs Oklahoma City Thunder Best Bet: Friday, January 20th

Two excellent young cores will clash tonight in American 1 Center as the 25 W 18L Sacramento Kings will host the 22W 23L Thunder team. Both teams will face big issues with available players and this is the thing that will surely dictate the pace of the game.

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The Kings are the team in best attacking form at the moment in the NBA. They managed to win their last 5 games where they have been scoring 132 PPG. Overall they have been one of the best offences in the league, currently sitting at 120PPG and 27 APG. They have been running a 7-second offence with D. Fox in his zone and they have been enjoying a lot of success recently.

For tonight their list of absences will be long as they will be missing D. Sabonis due to an illness, as well as A. Delavadova and A. Len with the same problem. The Kings are shooting 50% from the field until now and are one of the most efficient offences in this aspect as well.

The Thunder has been having a good stretch of their own recently as well. They managed to get 6 Wins out of their last 7 games and are sitting comfortably in the 10th spot in the Western Conference. They will be facing very big problems with absences as well tonight, as the list goes: A. Pokusevski (Leg injury), J. Robinson (Ankle injury), E. Omoruyi (Lower back), C. Holmgren (foot), and O. Dieng with an upper back injury.

As the Thunder have won so many games and is facing a very shortened rotation, we are leaning towards the Kings to clinch the W at the end and continue their amazing streak. We believe the Moneyline on 1.67 on Kings is not realistic if indeed all of the mentioned players of OKC will be missing.