Los Angeles Clippers (14-23, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (28-9, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Pistons -7.5; over\/under is 219.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Detroit comes into a matchup with Los Angeles as winners of three consecutive games.<\/p>\n The Pistons have gone 15-3 in home games. Detroit ranks second in the Eastern Conference with 18.1 fast break points per game led by Cade Cunningham averaging 3.8.<\/p>\n The Clippers are 5-14 on the road. Los Angeles ranks ninth in the league allowing just 114.2 points while holding opponents to 47.0% shooting.<\/p>\n The Pistons score 118.5 points per game, 4.3 more points than the 114.2 the Clippers allow. The Clippers are shooting 47.5% from the field, 3.2% higher than the 44.3% the Pistons’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Dec. 29 the Clippers won 112-99 led by 55 points from Kawhi Leonard, while Cunningham scored 27 points for the Pistons.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Cunningham is averaging 26.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 9.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n James Harden is averaging 25.8 points and eight assists for the Clippers. Leonard is averaging 33.1 points, 7.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 2.6 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 116.9 points, 44.2 rebounds, 28.5 assists, 11.2 steals and 8.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Clippers: 8-2, averaging 116.1 points, 39.3 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 7.9 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.5 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Pistons: Cade Cunningham: day to day (wrist), Jalen Duren: out (ankle), Tobias Harris: out (hip).<\/p>\n Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Derrick Jones Jr.: out (knee), Bogdan Bogdanovic: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers (14-23, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (28-9, first in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65999,847,10116,48,52,51,47,50,49,7592,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-127912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-65999","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-nba-basketball","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127912","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=127912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127912\/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=127912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}