San Antonio Spurs (42-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (15-42, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio seeks to keep its 10-game win streak intact when the Spurs take on Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
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The Nets have gone 8-20 in home games. Brooklyn is 10-28 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 21-10 in road games. San Antonio is third in the Western Conference with 16.4 fast break points per game led by Stephon Castle averaging 2.9.<\/p>\n
The Nets average 106.9 points per game, 4.9 fewer points than the 111.8 the Spurs allow. The Spurs are shooting 47.8% from the field, 1.5% lower than the 49.3% the Nets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Spurs defeated the Nets 118-107 in their last meeting on Oct. 26. Victor Wembanyama led the Spurs with 31 points, and Michael Porter Jr. led the Nets with 15 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Porter is averaging 24.6 points, seven rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Nets. Nolan Traore is averaging 12.5 points and 5.7 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox is averaging 19.1 points and 6.2 assists for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 23.6 points and 11.6 rebounds while shooting 50.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 103.2 points, 40.4 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 10-0, averaging 124.7 points, 49.0 rebounds, 31.2 assists, 8.1 steals and 7.3 blocks per game while shooting 50.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Mason Plumlee: day to day (reconditioning).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (42-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (15-42, 14th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[61134,98,100,355,99,61135,61137,11352,61136,4600,9,24,63,17553,9416,9138,34503,36718,10221,17536],"class_list":{"0":"post-145802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-10-games","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-david-jones-garcia","14":"tag-de39aaron-fox","15":"tag-eastern-conference","16":"tag-mason-plumlee","17":"tag-michael-porter-jr","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-points-per-game","22":"tag-san-antonio","23":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","24":"tag-stephon-castle","25":"tag-the-spurs","26":"tag-victor-wembanyama","27":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145802","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=145802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145802\/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=145802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}