Memphis Grizzlies (4-9, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (8-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis comes into the matchup with Cleveland as losers of three in a row.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 4-2 on their home court. Cleveland is 0-1 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 1-4 on the road. Memphis has a 2-7 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers average 16.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 more made shots on average than the 14.5 per game the Grizzlies give up. The Grizzlies average 13.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 fewer makes per game than the Cavaliers give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Mitchell is scoring 30.5 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists for the Cavaliers. Nae’Qwan Tomlin is averaging 18.0 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 80.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cedric Coward is averaging 14.3 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists for the Grizzlies. Jaren Jackson Jr. is averaging 18.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 6-4, averaging 122.8 points, 45.2 rebounds, 28.7 assists, 9.7 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 2-8, averaging 109.6 points, 43.6 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 7.9 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cavaliers: Jaylon Tyson: day to day (illness), Max Strus: out (foot), Darius Garland: day to day (toe), Lonzo Ball: day to day (rest).<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: Zach Edey: day to day (ankle), Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Javon Small: day to day (toe), Brandon Clarke: out (knee), Ty Jerome: out (calf), Ja Morant: day to day (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":"Memphis Grizzlies (4-9, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (8-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[128403,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-282192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-128403","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}