Milwaukee Bucks (16-21, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (23-12, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Friday, 10:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles and Milwaukee play in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
The Lakers have gone 10-6 at home. Los Angeles ranks eighth in the Western Conference at limiting opponent scoring, allowing just 116.6 points while holding opponents to 48.6% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Bucks are 7-12 on the road. Milwaukee has a 3-5 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Lakers average 116.3 points per game, 0.7 more points than the 115.6 the Bucks give up. The Bucks average 14.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 more made shots on average than the 13.5 per game the Lakers allow.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the second time this season. The Lakers defeated the Bucks 119-95 in their last meeting on Nov. 16. Luka Doncic led the Lakers with 41 points, and Giannis Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 32 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Deandre Ayton is averaging 14.2 points and 8.5 rebounds for the Lakers. Doncic is averaging 28.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ryan Rollins is scoring 17.2 points per game and averaging 4.4 rebounds for the Bucks. Myles Turner is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 5-5, averaging 111.6 points, 40.4 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 8.5 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bucks: 5-5, averaging 111.8 points, 43.1 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lakers: LeBron James: day to day (foot), Austin Reaves: out (calf), Adou Thiero: out (knee), Rui Hachimura: out (calf).<\/p>\n
Bucks: Taurean Prince: out (neck).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks (16-21, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (23-12, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65043,847,48,52,51,47,50,49,7592,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-124948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-65043","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}