Memphis Grizzlies (4-10, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (9-4, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis is looking to break its four-game skid with a win against San Antonio.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 4-0 against division opponents. San Antonio is sixth in the league with 18.2 fast break points per game led by Devin Vassell averaging 3.5.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 2-1 against opponents from the Southwest Division. Memphis is 2-7 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are shooting 49.7% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 48.3% the Grizzlies allow to opponents. The Grizzlies average 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 fewer made shots on average than the 14.2 per game the Spurs allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Victor Wembanyama is scoring 26.2 points per game with 12.9 rebounds and 4.0 assists for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox is averaging 28.0 points and 2.0 rebounds while shooting 55.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cedric Coward is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 6.1 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Jaren Jackson Jr. is averaging 26.0 points and 5.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 118.1 points, 44.2 rebounds, 28.5 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 2-8, averaging 107.8 points, 44.3 rebounds, 27.2 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 42.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: Dylan Harper: out (calf), Victor Wembanyama: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Javon Small: out (toe), Ja Morant: day to day (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (knee), Olivier-Maxence Prosper: day to day (quad), Ty Jerome: out (calf).<\/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":"Memphis Grizzlies (4-10, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (9-4, fifth 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":[29292,732,6539,82,84,83,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-52691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-29292","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\/52691","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=52691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52691\/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=52691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}