San Antonio Spurs (58-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (39-37, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Spurs -4.5; over\/under is 231.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio visits the Los Angeles Clippers after Victor Wembanyama scored 41 points in the Spurs\u2019 127-113 win over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n
The Clippers have gone 22-24 against Western Conference teams. Los Angeles is the worst team in the Western Conference recording only 40.6 rebounds per game led by Kawhi Leonard averaging 6.4.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 33-14 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio is the Western Conference leader with 35.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Wembanyama averaging 9.4.<\/p>\n
The Clippers score 113.9 points per game, 2.6 more points than the 111.3 the Spurs give up. The Spurs are shooting 48.2% from the field, 1.3% higher than the 46.9% the Clippers\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the third time this season. In the last meeting on March 17 the Spurs won 119-115 led by 23 points from Stephon Castle, while Darius Garland scored 25 points for the Clippers.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Leonard is averaging 28.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and two steals for the Clippers. Garland is averaging 20.8 points and 6.6 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama is averaging 24.7 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 blocks for the Spurs. Julian Champagnie is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 5-5, averaging 116.3 points, 38.5 rebounds, 24.1 assists, 10.7 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 10-0, averaging 124.3 points, 51.2 rebounds, 32.0 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.1 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (58-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (39-37, eighth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-233136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233136","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=233136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}