Atlanta Hawks (13-8, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (16-4, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta visits the Detroit Pistons after Jalen Johnson scored 41 points in the Hawks’ 142-134 overtime win over the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n
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The Pistons are 12-4 in conference play. Detroit ranks eighth in the NBA giving up just 114.0 points per game while holding opponents to 44.6% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Hawks have gone 7-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta has a 3-0 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Pistons average 119.8 points per game, 3.2 more points than the 116.6 the Hawks give up. The Hawks average 13.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 more makes per game than the Pistons allow.<\/p>\n
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The teams play for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Nov. 19 the Pistons won 120-112 led by 25 points from Cade Cunningham, while Johnson scored 25 points for the Hawks.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jalen Duren is averaging 19.5 points and 11.8 rebounds for the Pistons. Cunningham is averaging 29.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Onyeka Okongwu is scoring 16.2 points per game and averaging 7.4 rebounds for the Hawks. Johnson is averaging 41.0 points and 14.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 8-2, averaging 123.4 points, 46.0 rebounds, 27.2 assists, 10.0 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hawks: 7-3, averaging 124.0 points, 41.5 rebounds, 33.9 assists, 9.6 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: Marcus Sasser: out (hip), Jalen Duren: day to day (leg), Duncan Robinson: day to day (ankle), Bobi Klintman: out (ankle), Caris LeVert: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
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Hawks: N’Faly Dante: out (mcl), Nikola \u0110urisic: out (elbow), Kristaps Porzingis: out (illness), Trae Young: out (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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks (13-8, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (16-4, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6703,24623,49,24617,48,14739,8028,14732,23934,18735,9924,16156,127878,459,141467,1528,96762,82,18727],"class_list":["post-318026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-bobi-klintman","tag-ca","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-canada","tag-caris-levert","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jalen-duren","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-kristaps-porzingis","tag-marcus-sasser","tag-nba","tag-onyeka-okongwu","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-points-per-game","tag-sports","tag-trae-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318026","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=318026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}