SACRAMENTO – Sacramento Kings guard DeMar DeRozan has been ruled out of Wednesday night’s game against the Phoenix Suns due to lower back tightness, the team announced.

DeRozan did not come out of the locker room after halftime and was ruled out shortly afterwards. He scored just two points on 1-of-2 shooting in 17 minutes in the first half.

So far this year, DeRozan has been Mr. Clutch for Sacramento; he scored 36 points in the league this season – the second best figure in the league. Overall, he is averaging 24.8 points on 52.6% shooting in 38 minutes.

Losing DeRozan for any period of time would be a major blow to the Kings, as they have been without sixth man Malik Monk for at least two weeks (only).