New York Knicks (22-9, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (8-25, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans aims to end its three-game losing streak when the Pelicans take on New York.<\/p>\n
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The Pelicans are 6-14 on their home court. New Orleans is the top team in the Western Conference with 58.3 points in the paint led by Zion Williamson averaging 14.6.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 7-7 on the road. New York ranks third in the league with 46.4 rebounds per game. Karl-Anthony Towns paces the Knicks with 11.9.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans average 10.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.0 fewer makes per game than the Knicks allow (14.6). The Knicks are shooting 47.7% from the field, 1.1% lower than the 48.8% the Pelicans’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is averaging 20.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.7 steals for the Pelicans. Williamson is averaging 22.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mikal Bridges is scoring 16.7 points per game and averaging 4.5 rebounds for the Knicks. Towns is averaging 36.0 points and 15.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 5-5, averaging 121.0 points, 44.4 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Knicks: 8-2, averaging 121.2 points, 47.9 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 8.1 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Herbert Jones: day to day (ankle), Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/p>\n
Knicks: Landry Shamet: day to day (shoulder), Josh Hart: day to day (ankle), Miles McBride: day to day (ankle).<\/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":"New York Knicks (22-9, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (8-25, 15th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,120928,23934,70956,27805,17593,14738,18712,83777,459,2694,8214,2901,96762,82,76758,10627,8227],"class_list":{"0":"post-372878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dejounte-murray","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-herbert-jones","13":"tag-josh-hart","14":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","15":"tag-landry-shamet","16":"tag-mikal-bridges","17":"tag-miles-mcbride","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-new-orleans","20":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","21":"tag-new-york-knicks","22":"tag-points-per-game","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","25":"tag-western-conference","26":"tag-zion-williamson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372878","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=372878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}