Pacers vs Kings NBA Betting Line for Week 13

2024 NBA Expert Analysis Indiana vs Sacramento | MyBookie Sportsbook NBA Week 13

How to Bet Pacers at Kings NBA Odds & TV Info

When: Thursday, 10 PM ET
Where: Golden 1 Center
TV: NBA League Pass
Stream: NBA.com, NBA TV app
Radio: Tunein.com
NBA Odds: Kings -8 (total 245.5)

Series History

First of two meetings this season with Indiana leading all-time 52-44 but trailing 19-17 as the road team. They split last year, each winning at home. Jalen Smith and Bennedict Mathurin both scored 22 points for Indiana. Star Tyrese Haliburton finished with nine points and 10 rebounds. He of course was traded from Sacramento to Indiana a couple of years ago for Sabonis.

Why Bet on Indiana Pacers?

The Pacers aren’t the type of team that can land top-tier free agents so they have to build a contender through the draft or through trades. A few years ago, they sent out star big man Domantas Sabonis to Sacramento and got back point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who had been an early MVP candidate before getting injured. He will not play Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the Pacers made another big splash in landing two time All-Star forward Pascal Siakam from Toronto for starting guard Bruce Brown (but not a huge loss) and three first-round picks. Siakam would have to pass a physical and travel to California in time to play Thursday but an outside chance that happens.

The pick-and-roll duo between Haliburton when back and Siakam two should be deadly. Siakam has been very solid as the screener in those plays. He’s shooting 64.7 percent from the field as a roller this season, and his efficiency ranks in the 81st percentile of all players. The transition attack also should be excellent. Siakam is good at leaking out for easy buckets and converts well on those, ranking in the 77th percentile.

At 23-17 overall and sixth in the Eastern Conference, the Pacers’ rebuild was already ahead of schedule thanks to the ascension of Haliburton from bona fide NBA star to future MVP candidate – but adding Siakam almost completes the task. The only way this trade backfires on the Pacers is if Siakam decides he doesn’t want to be there in the long term as he’s a free agent this summer.

He’s averaging 11.8 points this season. Toppin hasn’t missed time but is dealing with a calf issue and probably will play. He averages 11.6 ppg.

Why Bet on Sacramento Kings?

Someone ironic about the Pacers acquiring Pascal Siakam on Wednesday from Toronto is that Sacramento also was after him. The Kings are off maybe the most unlikely loss of the season as they blew a 22-point fourth-quarter lead in Phoenix on Tuesday and lost 119-117, their third straight defeat – all on the road. The Kings led by 22 points with 8:22 to play and still 113-96 before the Suns closed the game with a 23-4 run.

“It’s a tough way to lose. Give them credit,” Kings coach Mike Brown said. “We played a good 42 minutes. The last six minutes, we took some tough shots at the rim. We couldn’t score at the rim instead of just continuing to move the ball and move bodies, everything was really stagnant, we turned the ball over.”

The Kings shot 51.4% with 30 assists and six turnovers over the first three quarters. They went 8 of 18 with eight turnovers and four assists in the fourth.

Pacers vs Kings Expert Prediction

Kings 125, Pacers 120

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