Denver Nuggets (26-13, third in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (9-32, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans aims to end its five-game home skid with a win against Denver.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 4-23 in Western Conference games. New Orleans has a 5-16 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 16-7 against Western Conference opponents. Denver is eighth in the league with 33.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Nikola Jokic averaging 9.1.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans average 114.9 points per game, 2.6 fewer points than the 117.5 the Nuggets give up. The Nuggets average 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 fewer makes per game than the Pelicans give up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Nuggets won the last matchup 125-118 on Nov. 20, with Peyton Watson scoring 32 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Derik Queen is shooting 49.6% and averaging 12.8 points for the Pelicans. Zion Williamson is averaging 24.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Watson is averaging 13.2 points for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 15.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 1-9, averaging 112.9 points, 42.2 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 8.9 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 115.4 points, 40.8 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Jose Alvarado: day to day (oblique), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Saddiq Bey: day to day (hip), Herbert Jones: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Nikola Jokic: out (knee), Jonas Valanciunas: out (calf), Christian Braun: out (ankle), Jamal Murray: out (ankle).<\/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 (26-13, third in the Western Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (9-32, 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":[216262,4225,24017,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-408300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-216262","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\/408300","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=408300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408300\/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=408300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}