San Antonio Spurs (49-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (34-32, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Monday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles is looking to continue its four-game win streak with a victory against San Antonio.<\/p>\n
The Clippers are 21-19 in conference matchups. Los Angeles is 17-24 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Spurs have gone 28-14 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio is fifth in the Western Conference with 27.4 assists per game led by Stephon Castle averaging 7.0.<\/p>\n
The Clippers make 48.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.2 percentage points higher than the Spurs have allowed to their opponents (45.1%). The Spurs average 13.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 more makes per game than the Clippers allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Spurs won 116-112 in the last matchup on March 7.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kawhi Leonard is averaging 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and two steals for the Clippers. Bennedict Mathurin is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Victor Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and three blocks for the Spurs. De\u2019Aaron Fox is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 7-3, averaging 121.1 points, 41.6 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 10.3 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 8-2, averaging 120.9 points, 45.3 rebounds, 30.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Nicolas Batum: out (rest), Yanic Konan Niederhauser: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal: out for season (hip).<\/p>\n
Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Dylan Harper: day to day (calf).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (49-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (34-32, eighth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[43154,26752,7,9222,100985,7002,50135,1953,48,52,51,47,716,50,49,129,7592,60136,7575,7001,127,34777,564,554,7569],"class_list":["post-220718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bennedict-mathurin","tag-bradley-beal","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-david-jones-garcia","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-dylan-harper","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nicolas-batum","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-stephon-castle","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220718","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=220718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}