Denver Nuggets (31-15, third in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (18-25, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Memphis, Tennessee; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Denver visits Memphis trying to extend its six-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 14-14 against Western Conference opponents. Memphis is sixth in the Western Conference with 11.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Zach Edey averaging 3.9.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 18-8 against conference opponents. Denver is 6-5 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are shooting 45.6% from the field this season, 1.2 percentage points lower than the 46.8% the Nuggets allow to opponents. The Nuggets average 13.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 fewer makes per game than the Grizzlies give up.<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Grizzlies 125-115 in their last matchup on Nov. 25. Jamal Murray led the Nuggets with 29 points, and Jock Landale led the Grizzlies with 26 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jaren Jackson Jr. is averaging 18.9 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Grizzlies. Landale is averaging 13.9 points and 8.6 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Aaron Gordon is shooting 50.9% and averaging 17.7 points for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 114.4 points, 46.4 rebounds, 29.2 assists, 7.0 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nuggets: 7-3, averaging 107.3 points, 39.0 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Grizzlies: Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Ty Jerome: out (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (calf), Santi Aldama: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: day to day (hamstring), Jonas Valanciunas: out (calf), Nikola Jokic: out (knee), Christian Braun: out (ankle), Peyton Watson: out (ankle), Jamal Murray: out (hamstring).<\/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 (31-15, third in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (18-25, 12th in the Western Conference) Memphis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[227127,4225,24017,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-434661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-227127","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\/434661","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=434661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434661\/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=434661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}