Los Angeles Clippers coach Tyronn Lue missed his team’s game against the Sacramento Kings because of back pain. Lue attended his pre-game session with media on Sunday night and gave no indication he was having any issue.

Keegan Murray scored a season-high 26 points and Zach LaVine added 22 to lift the hot-shooting Sacramento Kings to a 118-101 win over the Utah Jazz.

Kawhi Leonard's second career game-winning buzzer-beater helped the Clippers tighten their grip on eighth place in the West over the ninth-place Kings.

The Portland Trail Blazers lost a half-game on the 10th-place Sacramento Kings in the race for the final Western Conference play-in berth on Saturday night. The Kings (31-28) won 113-103 at the Houston Rockets (37-12) and are now 3½ games ahead of 11th-place Phoenix (28-32) and 4½ ahead of the 12th-place Blazers.

A foot injury forced Kings forward Keegan Murray to miss two games in early January, but that might have been a blessing in disguise.

Russell Westbrook finished the win with 25 points, five rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks while shooting 10/20 from the field and 4/7 from the three-point range in 35 minutes of playing time.

Keegan Murray scored a season-high 26 points to lead the Sacramento Kings to a 118-101 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday at Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Murray posted his fourth 20-point game of the season and his first since Nov.