Denver Nuggets (23-11, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (10-22, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn aims to break its three-game slide when the Nets take on Denver.<\/p>\n
The Nets are 4-13 on their home court. Brooklyn is at the bottom of the Eastern Conference scoring 42.5 points per game in the paint.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 13-6 on the road. Denver leads the Western Conference scoring 124.6 points per game while shooting 50.8%.<\/p>\n
The Nets are shooting 44.8% from the field this season, 2.4 percentage points lower than the 47.2% the Nuggets allow to opponents. The Nuggets average 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 more made shots on average than the 12.3 per game the Nets give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Day’Ron Sharpe is shooting 60.1% and averaging 7.3 points for the Nets. Drake Powell is averaging 14.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jamal Murray is scoring 25.4 points per game and averaging 4.5 rebounds for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 5-5, averaging 108.7 points, 40.0 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 122.5 points, 41.1 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Michael Porter Jr.: day to day (illness), Nic Claxton: day to day (personal), Cam Thomas: day to day (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Christian Braun: out (ankle), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Nikola Jokic: out (knee), Jonas Valanciunas: 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":"Denver Nuggets (23-11, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (10-22, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[208689,4225,64,63,726,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-389689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-208689","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389689","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=389689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389689\/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=389689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}