Indiana Pacers (10-32, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (29-10, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Pistons -12.5; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Pascal Siakam and the Indiana Pacers visit Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n The Pistons are 7-3 against the rest of their division. Detroit averages 117.6 points and has outscored opponents by 6.5 points per game.<\/p>\n The Pacers are 2-7 in division play. Indiana is 4-19 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n The Pistons’ 11.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.3 fewer made shots on average than the 11.4 per game the Pacers give up. The Pacers are shooting 44.4% from the field, 0.2% higher than the 44.2% the Pistons’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the third time this season. The Pistons won 122-117 in the last matchup on Nov. 25. Cunningham led the Pistons with 24 points, and Siakam led the Pacers with 24 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Cunningham is averaging 26.2 points, 6.1 rebounds, 9.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 11.5 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Siakam is averaging 23.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists for the Pacers. Andrew Nembhard is averaging 15.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 6-4, averaging 114.7 points, 43.4 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 11.3 steals and 8.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Pacers: 4-6, averaging 114.8 points, 40.4 rebounds, 30.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Pistons: Paul Reed: day to day (personal), Cade Cunningham: day to day (wrist), Ausar Thompson: day to day (heel).<\/p>\n Pacers: Bennedict Mathurin: day to day (thumb), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Isaiah Jackson: out (concussion), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/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":"Indiana Pacers (10-32, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (29-10, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[220712,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-418854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-220712","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\/418854","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=418854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418854\/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=418854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}