Utah Jazz (14-28, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (29-13, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Monday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio will try to keep its three-game home win streak alive when the Spurs take on Utah.<\/p>\n
The Spurs have gone 16-11 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio ranks seventh in the NBA allowing just 112.7 points per game while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Jazz have gone 8-20 against Western Conference opponents. Utah is 4-5 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Spurs average 117.8 points per game, 9.8 fewer points than the 127.6 the Jazz allow. The Jazz average 6.7 more points per game (119.4) than the Spurs allow (112.7).<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Jazz defeated the Spurs 127-114 in their last meeting on Dec. 28. Lauri Markkanen led the Jazz with 29 points, and Victor Wembanyama led the Spurs with 32 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Wembanyama is averaging 24.5 points, 10.9 rebounds and 2.6 blocks for the Spurs. Julian Champagnie is averaging 3.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Markkanen is averaging 27.9 points and 7.2 rebounds for the Jazz. Brice Sensabaugh is averaging 19.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 112.5 points, 48.2 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 7.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Jazz: 2-8, averaging 115.9 points, 41.8 rebounds, 29.6 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 129.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: Devin Vassell: out (thigh).<\/p>\n
Jazz: Lauri Markkanen: day to day (illness), Georges Niang: day to day (foot), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder).<\/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":"Utah Jazz (14-28, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (29-13, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55027,732,6539,82,84,83,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-127880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-55027","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","13":"tag-san-antonio-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}