Brooklyn Nets (15-40, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (27-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Atlanta; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn enters the matchup against Atlanta after losing three straight games.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are 14-21 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta is third in the Eastern Conference with 18.0 fast break points per game led by Jalen Johnson averaging 4.3.<\/p>\n
The Nets have gone 11-23 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn is 4-12 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 14.9 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are shooting 47.0% from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points lower than the 49.2% the Nets allow to opponents. The Hawks average 106.8 points per game, 11.8 fewer points than the 118.6 the Hawks give up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Hawks won 117-112 in the last matchup on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Johnson is averaging 23.3 points, 10.7 rebounds and 8.2 assists for the Hawks. CJ McCollum is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Michael Porter Jr. is scoring 24.7 points per game and averaging 7.2 rebounds for the Nets. Egor Demin is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 4-6, averaging 113.1 points, 43.5 rebounds, 26.9 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nets: 3-7, averaging 102.6 points, 43.8 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hawks: Jonathan Kuminga: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Nets: Ziaire Williams: out (personal), Nic Claxton: out (ankle).<\/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":"Brooklyn Nets (15-40, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (27-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8598,1262,98,100,355,99,24028,52214,30706,5348,59642,44898,4600,21,4583,1066,9,24,23456,63,319,4607],"class_list":{"0":"post-141469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-c-j-mccollum","15":"tag-data-skrive","16":"tag-ga-state-wire","17":"tag-georgia","18":"tag-jalen-johnson","19":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","20":"tag-michael-porter-jr","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nba-basketball","23":"tag-new-jersey","24":"tag-new-york","25":"tag-new-york-city","26":"tag-nicolas-claxton","27":"tag-nyc","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-ziaire-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141469","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=141469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}