Cleveland Cavaliers (37-24, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (15-44, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn heads into the matchup against Cleveland as losers of seven straight games.<\/p>\n
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The Nets are 11-25 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn ranks eighth in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 115.6 points while holding opponents to 49.6% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers have gone 23-15 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland ranks ninth in the NBA with 12.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Jarrett Allen averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n
The Nets are shooting 44.5% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points lower than the 46.1% the Cavaliers allow to opponents. The Cavaliers’ 47.6% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.0 percentage points lower than the Nets have given up to their opponents (49.6%).<\/p>\n
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The two teams play for the third time this season. The Cavaliers defeated the Nets 112-84 in their last matchup on Feb. 20. Donovan Mitchell led the Cavaliers with 17 points, and Michael Porter Jr. led the Nets with 14 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Porter is averaging 24.4 points, seven rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Nets. Nolan Traore is averaging 13.4 points, 6.1 assists and 1.5 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mitchell is averaging 28.5 points, 5.8 assists and 1.6 steals for the Cavaliers. Sam Merrill is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 106.7 points, 38.8 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 120.0 points, 44.0 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 9.5 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Donovan Mitchell: day to day (groin), Max Strus: out (foot), Keon Ellis: day to day (finger), Dean Wade: day to day (ankle), James Harden: day to day (thumb).<\/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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (37-24, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (15-44, 14th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6996,49,48,2357,16548,2358,23934,1525,16546,29683,16550,6692,459,49961,82],"class_list":["post-504786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dean-wade","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-eastern-conference","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-keon-ellis","tag-max-strus","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-sam-merrill","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504786","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=504786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504786\/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=504786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}