Oklahoma City Thunder (13-1, first in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (2-11, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -17.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will look to keep its five-game win streak alive when the Thunder take on New Orleans.<\/p>\n The Pelicans have gone 1-10 against Western Conference teams. New Orleans averages 14.5 turnovers per game and is 2-6 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n The Thunder are 9-1 in conference play. Oklahoma City leads the NBA with 37.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Isaiah Hartenstein averaging 7.8.<\/p>\n The Pelicans score 108.2 points per game, 2.0 more points than the 106.2 the Thunder give up. The Thunder average 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 fewer made shots on average than the 14.9 per game the Pelicans allow.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the second time this season. The Thunder won 137-106 in the last matchup on Nov. 2. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 30 points, and Zion Williamson led the Pelicans with 20 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is averaging 19.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists for the Pelicans. Jose Alvarado is averaging 18 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 32.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Cason Wallace is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 2-8, averaging 107.9 points, 41.4 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 8.9 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Thunder: 9-1, averaging 121.8 points, 45.8 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 11.4 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.4 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Pelicans: Zion Williamson: day to day (hamstring), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Jordan Poole: out (knee).<\/p>\n Thunder: Aaron Wiggins: out (thigh), Alex Caruso: day to day (hand), Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: out (wrist), Kenrich Williams: out (knee), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (13-1, first in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (2-11, 15th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[167066,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-167066","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}