San Antonio Spurs (40-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (42-13, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Detroit is looking to continue its five-game win streak with a victory over San Antonio.<\/p>\n
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The Pistons are 22-6 on their home court. Detroit scores 117.6 points while outscoring opponents by 8.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 19-10 on the road. San Antonio is the NBA leader with 35.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Victor Wembanyama averaging 9.3.<\/p>\n
The Pistons make 48.1% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.7 percentage points higher than the Spurs have allowed to their opponents (45.4%). The Spurs score 9.3 more points per game (118.6) than the Pistons allow (109.3).<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Ausar Thompson is scoring 10.2 points per game and averaging 5.9 rebounds for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham is averaging 26.4 points and 5.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and 2.7 blocks for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox is averaging 15.8 points and 7.4 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 8-2, averaging 119.1 points, 44.9 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 11.1 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Spurs: 9-1, averaging 124.0 points, 48.2 rebounds, 30.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 7.1 blocks per game while shooting 51.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: None listed.<\/p>\n
Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Lindy Waters III: out (knee), Mason Plumlee: out (reconditioning).<\/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 (40-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (42-13, first in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[96089,49,24617,48,197489,153914,8028,197490,151327,459,96762,24616,2696,82,140771,21217,10627],"class_list":{"0":"post-491820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-david-jones-garcia","13":"tag-de39aaron-fox","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-lindy-waters-iii","16":"tag-mason-plumlee","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-points-per-game","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-the-spurs","23":"tag-victor-wembanyama","24":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491820","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=491820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}