Portland Trail Blazers visit Sacramento Kings early in the season. Neither team has a regular-season result yet, so our read leans on last season's games: Trail Blazers went L-W-L-L-L and Kings went W-L-L-W-L over their last five.
Our ratings favor Trail Blazers: about 57% to win, with a projected score of Portland Trail Blazers 115, Sacramento Kings 113. That is close to a toss-up. These are model estimates built from past results, not guarantees.
The teams have met 8 times in our recent records. Trail Blazers lead 6-2, and the average margin has been 0.7 points in favor of Trail Blazers.
On the injury report, Dylan Cardwell (SAC), Maxime Raynaud (SAC), Ben Simmons (SAC), and Shaedon Sharpe (POR) are listed as out.