Atlanta Hawks (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (10-4, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will try to keep its four-game road win streak intact when the Hawks face San Antonio.<\/p>\n
The Spurs have gone 7-2 in home games. San Antonio is eighth in the Western Conference scoring 118.2 points while shooting 49.6% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are 7-2 in road games. Atlanta is fourth in the Eastern Conference allowing just 114.4 points while holding opponents to 45.9% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Spurs make 49.6% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.7 percentage points higher than the Hawks have allowed to their opponents (45.9%). The Hawks average 13.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 14.1 per game the Spurs give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Devin Vassell is averaging 13.6 points for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox is averaging 26 points and two steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jalen Johnson is scoring 22.0 points per game and averaging 9.5 rebounds for the Hawks. Onyeka Okongwu is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 117.1 points, 43.6 rebounds, 27.9 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hawks: 7-3, averaging 118.9 points, 42.4 rebounds, 31.6 assists, 11.0 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: Dylan Harper: out (calf), Jordan McLaughlin: day to day (hamstring), Victor Wembanyama: out (calf), Stephon Castle: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Hawks: N’Faly Dante: day to day (knee), Nikola \u0110urisic: day to day (elbow), Trae Young: out (knee), Kristaps Porzingis: day to day (knee), Zaccharie Risacher: day to day (hip).<\/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":"Atlanta Hawks (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (10-4, 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":[30491,732,6539,82,84,83,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-55872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-30491","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\/55872","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=55872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55872\/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=55872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}