{"id":404104,"date":"2026-01-10T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404104\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:55:04","slug":"watson-and-denver-take-on-the-bucks-in-non-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404104\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson and Denver take on the Bucks in non-conference play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Milwaukee Bucks (16-21, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (25-13, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Denver; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Bucks visit the Denver Nuggets in non-conference play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Nuggets are 10-6 on their home court. Denver has the league&#8217;s highest scoring offense averaging 123.1 points while shooting 50.5% from the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Bucks have gone 8-12 away from home. Milwaukee is 3-5 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Nuggets make 50.5% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.9 percentage points higher than the Bucks have allowed to their opponents (46.6%). The Bucks are shooting 48.6% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 47.2% the Nuggets&#8217; opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">TOP PERFORMERS: Peyton Watson is scoring 13.0 points per game with 4.9 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 15.2 points and 2.6 rebounds while shooting 44.6% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Giannis Antetokounmpo is scoring 29.5 points per game and averaging 10.0 rebounds for the Bucks. Ryan Rollins is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 4-6, averaging 117.6 points, 39.7 rebounds, 27.3 assists, 6.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.0 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bucks: 5-4, averaging 111.8 points, 43.7 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.2 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">INJURIES: Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Nikola Jokic: out (knee), Spencer Jones: out (foot), Jonas Valanciunas: out (calf), Jamal Murray: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bucks: Taurean Prince: out (neck).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks (16-21, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (25-13, third in the Western Conference) Denver;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[214461,4225,24017,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-404104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-214461","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404104","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=404104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404104\/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=404104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}