Atlanta Hawks (44-33, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (18-58, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will try to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The Nets have gone 12-33 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn has a 12-39 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Hawks have gone 25-22 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta is second in the league scoring 18.3 fast break points per game. Nickeil Alexander-Walker leads the Hawks averaging 4.0.<\/p>\n
The Nets’ 13.2 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.2 more made shots on average than the 13.0 per game the Hawks allow. The Hawks’ 47.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.0 percentage points lower than the Nets have given up to their opponents (49.4%).<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. In the last matchup on March 12 the Hawks won 108-97 led by 21 points from Jalen Johnson, while Josh Minott scored 24 points for the Nets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton is averaging 11.7 points, seven rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Nets. Ziaire Williams is averaging 11.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Johnson is scoring 22.8 points per game with 10.3 rebounds and 8.1 assists for the Hawks. Alexander-Walker is averaging 24.4 points and 3.7 rebounds while shooting 53.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 1-9, averaging 100.4 points, 36.0 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hawks: 8-2, averaging 122.3 points, 43.9 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Danny Wolf: out (ankle), Egor Demin: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Terance Mann: day to day (achilles), Michael Porter Jr.: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Hawks: Jock Landale: day to day (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":"Atlanta Hawks (44-33, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (18-58, 14th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[73753,597,12188,98,100,99,4583,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-183216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-73753","tag-article","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183216","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=183216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}