New York Knicks (26-18, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (24-19, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia hosts the New York Knicks following the Philadelphia 76ers’ 128-122 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 18-15 against Eastern Conference opponents. Philadelphia has a 12-5 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 6-3 against the rest of the division. New York has a 10-14 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n
The 76ers average 116.8 points per game, 3.0 more points than the 113.8 the Knicks give up. The Knicks average 14.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the 76ers give up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The 76ers won 130-119 in the last matchup on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tyrese Maxey is averaging 30.1 points, 6.8 assists and 2.1 steals for the 76ers. Joel Embiid is averaging 22.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.1 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Karl-Anthony Towns is scoring 20.8 points per game and averaging 11.5 rebounds for the Knicks. Miles McBride is averaging 3.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 5-5, averaging 116.1 points, 42.2 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 11.2 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 3-7, averaging 109.2 points, 45.9 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 7.8 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Knicks: None listed.<\/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 (26-18, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (24-19, fifth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46344,1165,10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-94430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-46344","tag-article","tag-nba-basketball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}