When/where: 10 p.m. today, Golden 1 Center
TV: Fox Sports Southeast
Stream: Fox Sports Go
Radio: 92.9 The Game
Injuries: Hawks—Kent Bazemore (knee), DeAndre' Bembry (abdominal), Antonius Cleveland (ankle), John Collins (ankle), Malcolm Delaney (ankle) and Jaylen Morris (ankle) are out.
Kings—Harry Giles (knee), Iman Shumpert (knee) and Garrett Temple (ankle) are out; Zach Randolph (illness) is questionable; Bogdan Bogdanovic (hamstring) is probable.
What to watch for: There are major draft lottery implications for second game of the Hawks' five-game trip to face Western Conference opponents.
The Hawks (21-50) are tied with the Magic for the third-worst record in the NBA and already own one victory over the Kings (23-49). Sacramento is tied with the Nets for sixth from the bottom. Those teams are among seven with 49 losses or more.
The team that finishes last in the standings secures the best odds to win the No. 1 pick in the draft. The latest FiveThirtyEight.com projection predicts that the Suns will finish at the top of the lottery standings followed by the Grizzlies and Hawks.
The Hawks began the western portion of their trip with an upset victory at Utah on Monday night. The Hawks were missing injured starters Kent Bazemore and John Collins but Dennis Schroder carried them to victory with a career-high 41 points.
The Kings have won five of their past 11 games but could sit leading scorer Zach Randolph against the Hawks.
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