Oklahoma City Thunder (54-15, first in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (17-51, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -19.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City visits the Brooklyn Nets after Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points in the Thunder\u2019s 113-108 victory over the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n The Nets are 9-24 in home games. Brooklyn is last in the Eastern Conference shooting 34.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Thunder are 25-8 on the road. Oklahoma City is 5-6 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n The Nets score 106.6 points per game, 1.1 fewer points than the 107.7 the Thunder give up. The Thunder are shooting 48.0% from the field, 1.3% lower than the 49.3% the Nets\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the second time this season. The Thunder won the last matchup 105-86 on Feb. 21. Jared McCain scored 21 points to help lead the Thunder to the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 24.2 points and 7.1 rebounds for the Nets. Danny Wolf is averaging 11.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 31.7 points and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Jaylin Williams is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 104.3 points, 38.8 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.8 points per game.<\/p>\n Thunder: 9-1, averaging 112.8 points, 44.3 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.6 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nets: Ben Saraf: day to day (foot), Egor Demin: out for season (foot), Day\u2019Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter Jr.: day to day (ankle), Terance Mann: day to day (achilles), Nolan Traore: day to day (eye).<\/p>\n Thunder: Branden Carlson: day to day (back), Jalen Williams: day to day (hamstring), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (54-15, first in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (17-51, 13th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[12188,7936,68796,98,100,355,99,7937,52214,20470,59038,16515,68797,4600,21,4583,1066,9,24,63,68795,3028,9413,9132,1264,30530,319,4606,59037],"class_list":["post-167652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-ben-saraf","tag-branden-carlson","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-danny-wolf","tag-data-skrive","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-jalen-williams","tag-jared-mccain","tag-jaylin-williams","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ok-state-wire","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-orlando-magic","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-terance-mann","tag-thomas-sorber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167652","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=167652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167652\/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=167652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}