San Antonio Spurs (20-7, second in the Western Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (5-21, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Washington; Sunday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Spurs -15.5; over\/under is 239.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Washington plays San Antonio looking to stop its three-game home skid.<\/p>\n The Wizards are 2-9 in home games. Washington has a 1-2 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n The Spurs have gone 10-5 away from home. San Antonio ranks sixth in the NBA with 34.2 defensive rebounds per game led by Victor Wembanyama averaging 10.2.<\/p>\n The Wizards are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 46.5% the Spurs allow to opponents. The Wizards average 119.9 points per game, 6.3 fewer points than the 126.2 the Wizards give up.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Spurs won 119-94 in the last matchup on Dec. 19. Dylan Harper led the Spurs with 24 points, and Alex Sarr led the Wizards with 18 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: CJ McCollum is averaging 19 points and 3.5 assists for the Wizards. Kyshawn George is averaging 28 points, seven rebounds and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n De’Aaron Fox is scoring 22.1 points per game and averaging 3.7 rebounds for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 26.0 points and 12.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 4-6, averaging 112.4 points, 44.0 rebounds, 25.9 assists, 7.0 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Spurs: 8-2, averaging 123.1 points, 45.2 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.4 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Wizards: Jamir Watkins: out (illness), Bilal Coulibaly: out (ankle), Cam Whitmore: out (shoulder), Corey Kispert: out (thumb).<\/p>\n Spurs: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (20-7, second in the Western Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (5-21, 15th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[154989,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-359659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-154989","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\/359659","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=359659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359659\/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=359659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}