Dallas Mavericks (21-44, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (23-41, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Memphis, Tennessee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis hosts Dallas looking to stop its four-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 6-6 against division opponents. Memphis is sixth in the Western Conference scoring 115.9 points while shooting 46.2% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are 3-10 against the rest of their division. Dallas allows 117.8 points to opponents and has been outscored by 4.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are shooting 46.2% from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points lower than the 47.0% the Mavericks allow to opponents. The Mavericks average 10.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.4 fewer made shots on average than the 14.0 per game the Grizzlies give up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Grizzlies won 124-105 in the last matchup on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cedric Coward is averaging 13.4 points and 6.4 rebounds for the Grizzlies. GG Jackson is averaging 17.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Naji Marshall is scoring 15.0 points per game and averaging 4.7 rebounds for the Mavericks. Klay Thompson is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 2-8, averaging 118.3 points, 37.4 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 10.2 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 107.8 points, 44.7 rebounds, 24.2 assists, 5.4 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Grizzlies: Santi Aldama: day to day (knee), Taj Gibson: day to day (reconditioning), Walter Clayton Jr.: day to day (ankle), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: out for season (finger), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Scotty Pippen Jr.: day to day (toe), Zach Edey: out for season (ankle), Brandon Clarke: out (calf).<\/p>\n
Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving: out for season (knee).<\/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":"Dallas Mavericks (21-44, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (23-41, 11th in the Western Conference) Memphis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9121,35769,32711,102,104,2582,103,49066,4644,78806,78804,4648,4641,11721,4851,31208,3080,6539,78807,78801,154,78802,78805,3135,27,17188,1760,78803,3137],"class_list":["post-199591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-brandon-clarke","tag-cedric-coward","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-data-skrive","tag-dereck-lively-ii","tag-gregory-jackson","tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope","tag-klay-thompson","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-naji-marshall","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-santi-aldama","tag-scotty-pippen","tag-sports","tag-taj-gibson","tag-temetrius-morant","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-walter-clayton","tag-zach-edey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199591","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=199591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}