It will be a pretty beat-up Kings team the Wolves will host tonight.

Starting center DeMarcus Cousins will be out with a bruised right knee and Ben McLemore (finger fracture) will also be out.

Guard Rajon Rondo (turf toe) is available, as is Willie Cauley-Stein, who has been bothered by the flu.

Still, it will be hard for coach George Karl's Kings to make up for the loss of Cousins' 27.1 points per game. And he knows it. "We score less points with him out, and we're worse defensively," Karl said. "I think the big thing – my thought process this afternoon – is how to score. He scores 27 a night, he's pretty efficient, gets to the line for us. How we distribute that situation is a bit of a concern.''

As for the Wolves, after playing well in close losses to Houston and Golden State, they need to take care of a beatable team. In their last 23 games, the Wolves are 6-7 against teams with winning records but just 2-8 against teams with losing records.