Memphis Grizzlies (6-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (3-15, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Orleans Pelicans play the Memphis Grizzlies in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 1-4 in division play. New Orleans is 1-13 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 3-2 against the rest of their division. Memphis averages 13.7 turnovers per game and is 4-5 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans score 110.6 points per game, 6.3 fewer points than the 116.9 the Grizzlies allow. The Grizzlies average 13.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 fewer made shots on average than the 15.3 per game the Pelicans allow.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the second time this season. The Grizzlies defeated the Pelicans 128-122 in their last meeting on Oct. 23. Ja Morant led the Grizzlies with 35 points, and Zion Williamson led the Pelicans with 27 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is shooting 46.2% and averaging 20.2 points for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Santi Aldama is scoring 13.8 points per game and averaging 6.7 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Jaylen Wells is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 1-9, averaging 112.7 points, 42.6 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 10.1 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 109.7 points, 47.9 rebounds, 29.5 assists, 7.3 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Karlo Matkovic: day to day (calf), Herbert Jones: out (back), Jordan Hawkins: day to day (personal), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Jordan Poole: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Javon Small: out (toe), Ja Morant: out (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (knee), Ty Jerome: out (calf).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies (6-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (3-15, 15th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[175011,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-175011","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\/307712","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=307712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307712\/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=307712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}