New York Knicks (48-26, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (58-16, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Sunday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to keep its eight-game home win streak intact when the Thunder face New York.<\/p>\n
The Thunder have gone 30-7 in home games. Oklahoma City is eighth in the Western Conference with 25.5 assists per game led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander averaging 6.6.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 21-17 on the road. New York is eighth in the Eastern Conference with 15.4 fast break points per game led by Mikal Bridges averaging 3.2.<\/p>\n
The Thunder\u2019s 13.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.3 fewer made shots on average than the 13.9 per game the Knicks allow. The Knicks are shooting 47.6% from the field, 4.1% higher than the 43.5% the Thunder\u2019s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Thunder won 103-100 in the last matchup on March 5.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ajay Mitchell is scoring 14.1 points per game and averaging 3.5 rebounds for the Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 29.7 points and 4.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson is scoring 26.2 points per game with 3.4 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Knicks. Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 20.6 points and 10.6 rebounds while shooting 55.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 9-1, averaging 118.2 points, 45.6 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 7-3, averaging 115.8 points, 45.4 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Thunder: Chet Holmgren: out (hip), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Knicks: Landry Shamet: day to day (knee), Miles McBride: 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":"New York Knicks (48-26, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (58-16, first in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59435,59456,52214,4777,1555,7046,14063,4779,21,4583,9,24,11,1104,10,68795,3028,9413,9132,30530,319,59037],"class_list":["post-178049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ajay-mitchell","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-data-skrive","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-landry-shamet","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-ok-state-wire","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-thomas-sorber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178049","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=178049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178049\/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=178049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}