San Antonio Spurs (16-7, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (17-6, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Lakers take on the San Antonio Spurs in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
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The Lakers are 12-4 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is sixth in the Western Conference scoring 118.3 points while shooting 50.7% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 10-6 in Western Conference play. San Antonio averages 119.6 points while outscoring opponents by 4.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Lakers make 50.7% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.6 percentage points higher than the Spurs have allowed to their opponents (47.1%). The Spurs average 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 fewer makes per game than the Lakers allow.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. The Lakers won the last matchup 118-116 on Nov. 6, with Luka Doncic scoring 35 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Doncic is scoring 35.0 points per game with 9.2 rebounds and 9.1 assists for the Lakers. LeBron James is averaging 29.0 points and 7.0 rebounds while shooting 70.6% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Devin Vassell is averaging 15.7 points for the Spurs. Harrison Barnes is averaging 24.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 8-2, averaging 121.2 points, 41.5 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 6.5 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 51.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 7-3, averaging 120.6 points, 43.0 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lakers: Marcus Smart: day to day (back).<\/p>\n
Spurs: Jordan McLaughlin: day to day (hamstring), Victor Wembanyama: out (calf).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (16-7, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (17-6, second in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,97944,56688,140773,2327,1522,8231,12887,9472,459,96762,24616,2696,82,140771,21217,10627],"class_list":["post-334109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-devin-vassell","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-jordan-mclaughlin","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nba","tag-points-per-game","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-the-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334109","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=334109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}