New York Knicks (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (3-13, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Knicks -14; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn is looking to end its seven-game home skid with a victory against New York.<\/p>\n The Nets are 3-10 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn is 1-10 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n The Knicks are 6-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York ranks fourth in the NBA with 46.3 rebounds per game. Karl-Anthony Towns leads the Knicks with 12.5.<\/p>\n The Nets average 109.8 points per game, 6.3 fewer points than the 116.1 the Knicks allow. The Knicks average 15.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 more made shots on average than the 13.9 per game the Nets allow.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Knicks won 134-98 in the last matchup on Nov. 9.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 24.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Nets. Tyrese Martin is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Mikal Bridges is shooting 51.1% and averaging 16.3 points for the Knicks. Jordan Clarkson is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 3-7, averaging 108.3 points, 38.7 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 7.0 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Knicks: 7-3, averaging 124.5 points, 45.7 rebounds, 29.1 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.5 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Cam Thomas: out (hamstring), Ben Saraf: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Knicks: Landry Shamet: out (shoulder), OG Anunoby: out (hamstring).<\/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":"New York Knicks (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (3-13, 13th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28058,597,98,100,99,4583,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-50012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-28058","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50012","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=50012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}