Toronto Raptors (39-29, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (42-28, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Friday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Toronto seeks to keep its three-game win streak alive when the Raptors take on Denver.<\/p>\n
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The Nuggets have gone 19-13 in home games. Denver scores 120.7 points and has outscored opponents by 4.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 20-13 in road games. Toronto has an 18-21 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n
The 120.7 points per game the Nuggets score are 8.9 more points than the Raptors give up (111.8). The Raptors are shooting 47.5% from the field, 0.6% higher than the 46.9% the Nuggets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. In the last meeting on Jan. 1 the Nuggets won 106-103 led by 24 points from Peyton Watson, while Brandon Ingram scored 30 points for the Raptors.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Jamal Murray is averaging 25.1 points and 7.1 assists for the Nuggets. Nikola Jokic is averaging 26.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes is scoring 18.7 points per game with 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists for the Raptors. RJ Barrett is averaging 22.2 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 56.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 121.7 points, 43.9 rebounds, 29.7 assists, 6.2 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Raptors: 5-5, averaging 115.5 points, 40.3 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nuggets: Aaron Gordon: out (rest), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Raptors: Collin Murray-Boyles: out (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":"Toronto Raptors (39-29, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (42-28, sixth in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[5712,44388,49,48,62928,2898,23934,5720,5725,5728,96762,18718,14731,10677,3302,10676],"class_list":["post-546314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-aaron-gordon","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collin-murray-boyles","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-eastern-conference","tag-jamal-murray","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-peyton-watson","tag-points-per-game","tag-rj-barrett","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-the-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546314","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=546314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}