Los Angeles Lakers (29-19, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (13-35, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Brooklyn Nets host the Los Angeles Lakers in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
The Nets have gone 6-17 in home games. Brooklyn is the worst team in the Eastern Conference scoring 42.2 points per game in the paint.<\/p>\n
The Lakers are 17-11 in road games. Los Angeles has a 5-0 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Nets are shooting 44.2% from the field this season, 4.3 percentage points lower than the 48.5% the Lakers allow to opponents. The Lakers average 116.1 points per game, 1.4 more than the 114.7 the Nets give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton is averaging 12.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and four assists for the Nets. Danny Wolf is averaging 8.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Deandre Ayton is shooting 67.5% and averaging 13.6 points for the Lakers. Luka Doncic is averaging 4.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 100.3 points, 40.8 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lakers: 5-5, averaging 114.8 points, 40.5 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Michael Porter Jr.: day to day (personal), Ziaire Williams: day to day (calf), Noah Clowney: day to day (back).<\/p>\n
Lakers: Bronny James: out (leg), Austin Reaves: out (calf), Adou Thiero: out (knee).<\/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":"Los Angeles Lakers (29-19, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (13-35, 13th 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":[77949,847,48,52,51,47,50,49,7592,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-160188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-77949","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\/160188","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=160188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160188\/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=160188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}