Dallas Mavericks (10-16, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (9-15, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Monday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Utah Jazz host the Dallas Mavericks in Western Conference play Monday.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are 5-11 in Western Conference games. Utah is seventh in the Western Conference scoring 118.1 points while shooting 45.5% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are 5-11 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas is the leader in the Western Conference scoring 17.9 fast break points per game led by Cooper Flagg averaging 3.1.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are shooting 45.5% from the field this season, 0.6 percentage points lower than the 46.1% the Mavericks allow to opponents. The Mavericks average 11.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 fewer made shots on average than the 15.5 per game the Jazz allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Keyonte George is averaging 22.9 points and 6.8 assists for the Jazz. Lauri Markkanen is averaging 26.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
P.J. Washington is averaging 15.8 points and 7.6 rebounds for the Mavericks. Anthony Davis is averaging 24.0 points and 14.0 rebounds while shooting 47.6% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 4-6, averaging 116.3 points, 43.4 rebounds, 29.8 assists, 7.4 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mavericks: 6-4, averaging 115.0 points, 41.3 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 7.9 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Jazz: Georges Niang: day to day (foot), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving: out (knee), Dante Exum: out for season (knee), Daniel Gafford: day to day (ankle), D’Angelo Russell: day to day (illness).<\/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":"Dallas Mavericks (10-16, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (9-15, 11th in the Western Conference) Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[150332,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-344446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-150332","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\/344446","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=344446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344446\/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=344446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}