Milwaukee Bucks (11-15, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (6-18, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Milwaukee travels to Brooklyn looking to end its six-game road slide.<\/p>\n
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The Nets are 5-13 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn ranks ninth in the Eastern Conference with 11.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Nic Claxton averaging 2.8.<\/p>\n
The Bucks are 9-11 in Eastern Conference play. Milwaukee ranks third in the NBA averaging 15.4 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 41.0% from downtown. AJ Green leads the team averaging 3.3 makes while shooting 48.5% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Nets’ 14.2 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.7 more made shots on average than the 13.5 per game the Bucks give up. The Bucks average 15.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.4 more made shots on average than the 13.0 per game the Nets give up.<\/p>\n
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The teams play for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Nov. 30 the Bucks won 116-99 led by 29 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo, while Danny Wolf scored 22 points for the Nets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Claxton is averaging 13.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Nets. Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 34.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ryan Rollins is averaging 17.2 points, six assists and 1.7 steals for the Bucks. Bobby Portis is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 4-6, averaging 109.3 points, 41.4 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 6.6 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bucks: 3-7, averaging 111.5 points, 38.7 rebounds, 27.2 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Cam Thomas: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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Bucks: Giannis Antetokounmpo: out (calf), AJ Green: day to day (shoulder), Taurean Prince: out (neck).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks (11-15, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (6-18, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[30469,30468,98,100,355,99,4602,7937,11352,13977,4608,4600,1268,9,24,4601,63,36031,36032,36030],"class_list":{"0":"post-69639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-aj-green","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-cam-thomas","15":"tag-danny-wolf","16":"tag-eastern-conference","17":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","18":"tag-haywood-highsmith","19":"tag-michael-porter-jr","20":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-nic-claxton","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-ryan-rollins","26":"tag-taurean-prince","27":"tag-the-bucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639","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=69639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}