Indiana Pacers (18-61, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (20-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana looks to end its three-game skid with a victory over Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The Nets are 14-34 in Eastern Conference games. Brooklyn is at the bottom of the Eastern Conference averaging only 106.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Pacers have gone 14-35 against Eastern Conference opponents. Indiana is 6-36 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Nets’ 13.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.9 more made shots on average than the 12.2 per game the Pacers give up. The Pacers average 13.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than the Nets give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the third time this season. The Pacers won the last meeting 115-110 on Feb. 12. Jarace Walker scored 23 points to help lead the Pacers to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton is scoring 11.7 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Nets. Nolan Traore is averaging 10.5 points and 2.1 rebounds while shooting 37.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pascal Siakam is averaging 24 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Pacers. Obi Toppin is averaging 11.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 3-7, averaging 104.4 points, 33.3 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 10.3 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pacers: 3-7, averaging 120.9 points, 38.4 rebounds, 33.7 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 51.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Ziaire Williams: day to day (foot), Noah Clowney: day to day (ankle), Nic Claxton: day to day (hand), Danny Wolf: out for season (ankle), Egor Demin: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter Jr.: out for season (hamstring), Terance Mann: day to day (achilles).<\/p>\n
Pacers: T.J. McConnell: day to day (hamstring), Kobe Brown: day to day (back), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Andrew Nembhard: day to day (back), Ben Sheppard: day to day (hip), Ivica Zubac: out for season (rib), Pascal Siakam: day to day (back), Aaron Nesmith: day to day (neck), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Indiana Pacers (18-61, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (20-59, 13th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-189273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189273","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=189273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}