Oklahoma City Thunder (15-1, first in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (5-9, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder travel to face the Oklahoma City Thunder in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Jazz have gone 0-3 against division opponents. Utah has a 2-6 record in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Thunder are 11-1 against conference opponents. Oklahoma City is fourth in the Western Conference with 46.5 rebounds per game led by Isaiah Hartenstein averaging 11.0.<\/p>\n
The Jazz make 44.9% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.6 percentage points higher than the Thunder have allowed to their opponents (42.3%). The Thunder are shooting 47.8% from the field, 0.3% lower than the 48.1% the Jazz’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Keyonte George is averaging 23 points and 7.1 assists for the Jazz. Lauri Markkanen is averaging 31.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Hartenstein is scoring 12.4 points per game and averaging 11.0 rebounds for the Thunder. Luguentz Dort is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 3-7, averaging 116.7 points, 45.5 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Thunder: 9-1, averaging 122.3 points, 45.0 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 10.8 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 103.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Jazz: Georges Niang: out (foot), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Kyle Filipowski: day to day (wrist).<\/p>\n
Thunder: Aaron Wiggins: day to day (thigh), Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: day to day (wrist), Kenrich Williams: day to day (knee), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/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":"Oklahoma City Thunder (15-1, first in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (5-9, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[133042,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-295121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-133042","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\/295121","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=295121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295121\/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=295121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}