Cleveland Cavaliers (30-21, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (23-26, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland visits the Los Angeles Clippers after Jarrett Allen scored 40 points in the Cavaliers’ 130-111 victory against the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
The Clippers have gone 13-10 at home. Los Angeles is 11-18 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 13-10 in road games. Cleveland ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference scoring 50.7 points per game in the paint led by Evan Mobley averaging 10.7.<\/p>\n
The Clippers average 13.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer make per game than the Cavaliers allow (14.0). The Cavaliers average 6.4 more points per game (119.3) than the Clippers give up (112.9).<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the second time this season. The Cavaliers defeated the Clippers 120-105 in their last meeting on Nov. 23. Donovan Mitchell led the Cavaliers with 37 points, and Ivica Zubac led the Clippers with 33 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kawhi Leonard is shooting 49.7% and averaging 27.6 points for the Clippers. John Collins is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jaylon Tyson is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 5.5 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Mitchell is averaging 3.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 7-3, averaging 115.2 points, 43.2 rebounds, 24.2 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 117.6 points, 46.7 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 9.0 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Derrick Jones Jr.: out (knee), James Harden: out (personal).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Darius Garland: day to day (toe).<\/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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (30-21, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (23-26, ninth 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":[78464,847,2454,48,52,51,47,50,49,7592,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-161745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-78464","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","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\/161745","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=161745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161745\/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=161745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}