New Orleans Pelicans vs Sacramento Kings: NBA preview and betting tips

On Saturday, April 20, the NBA has 2 games on the schedule to decide the playoffs. One of them will be a duel of teams that have faced each other in the regular season in five occasions. Specifically, it is the New Orleans Pelicans vs Sacramento Kings game.

Where to watch the New Orleans Pelicans vs Sacramento Kings game?

As part of the playoffs preliminary round, the teams will duel at the Smoothie King Center Arena for a chance to make the playoffs. The game starts at 03:30 and you can watch it on Nova Sport 1.

Will New Orleans confirm their great record against Sacramento?

New Orleans picked a weak moment at the worst time of the season. In the last game of the season, they lost to the Lakers, who they then played in the playoffs and once again fell short against Lebron James. Now he has one last chance to sneak into the playoffs. But they have to beat Sacramento.

New Orleans has faced this team five times in the regular season and has always won. But Sacramento has a better finish to the season. In this game, the team around Zion Williams has to perform better than in the last games to even think about winning. The top scorer must not be left alone again as he was in the previous games.

Can Sacramento close the gap?

Sacramento ended the Golden State team’s season quite clearly in the opening round, when the Kings’ stars were overshadowed by Keegan Murray. Sacramento is currently in better shape and has the ability to break the unfavourable record this season, when they didn’t even beat New Orleans once. The Fox-Sabonis pairing has the power to push Williamson and Ingram over the top.

New Orleans Pelicans vs Sacramento Kings odds

Betting tip – De’Aaron Fox to score 25+ points

Sacramento’s unit this season has been driven by the shooting duo of De´Aaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis. Fox is expected to be one of the top scorers in this important game and could help the team with at least 26 points. One can also believe that Sabonis will be the one to look for accurate passes to finish. Fortuna has set odds of 1.40 for Fox to score at least 26 points in this game.