Phoenix Suns (25-17, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (12-28, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Phoenix Suns take on the Brooklyn Nets in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
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The Nets have gone 6-15 in home games. Brooklyn is last in the Eastern Conference scoring 12.1 fast break points per game.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 11-12 on the road. Phoenix ranks fifth in the league giving up only 111.7 points while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Nets are shooting 44.7% from the field this season, 2.0 percentage points lower than the 46.7% the Suns allow to opponents. The Suns’ 46.0% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.6 percentage points lower than the Nets have allowed to their opponents (48.6%).<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton is averaging 12.9 points, 7.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Nets. Noah Clowney is averaging 12.9 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Collin Gillespie is averaging 13.2 points, 4.9 assists and 1.5 steals for the Suns. Devin Booker is averaging 22.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 106.0 points, 40.1 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Suns: 6-4, averaging 112.0 points, 44.8 rebounds, 24.1 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Michael Porter Jr.: out (rest), Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Drake Powell: out (knee), Ziaire Williams: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Suns: Jamaree Bouyea: day to day (concussion), Devin Booker: day to day (ankle), Jalen Green: day to day (hamstring).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (25-17, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (12-28, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,47452,47389,7935,11352,4608,47453,47454,4600,9,24,4601,4610,63,24646,4575,17553,47390,17536,4607],"class_list":["post-104446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-devin-booker","tag-drake-powell","tag-eastern-conference","tag-haywood-highsmith","tag-jalen-green","tag-jamaree-bouyea","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nic-claxton","tag-noah-clowney","tag-nyc","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-points-per-game","tag-the-suns","tag-western-conference","tag-ziaire-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}