Memphis Grizzlies (9-12, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (13-6, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis will try to extend its three-game win streak with a victory over San Antonio.<\/p>\n
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The Spurs are 5-0 against division opponents. San Antonio has a 1-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 4-2 against the rest of their division. Memphis is 3-9 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are shooting 49.0% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 47.6% the Grizzlies allow to opponents. The Grizzlies average 113.4 points per game, 0.2 fewer than the 113.6 the Spurs give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last meeting 111-101 on Nov. 19. De’Aaron Fox scored 26 points to help lead the Spurs to the win.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Devin Vassell is averaging 15.9 points for the Spurs. Fox is averaging 25 points and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cedric Coward is shooting 45.2% and averaging 13.2 points for the Grizzlies. Cam Spencer is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 6-4, averaging 118.6 points, 44.5 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 5-5, averaging 113.0 points, 49.4 rebounds, 30.3 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Spurs: Jordan McLaughlin: out (hamstring), Victor Wembanyama: out (calf), Stephon Castle: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: Scotty Pippen Jr.: out (toe), Javon Small: out (toe), Ja Morant: out (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (knee), 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 (9-12, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (13-6, fifth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35769,35767,32711,35765,32000,35764,24225,35771,35768,4851,20931,82,84,83,1066,35766,1504,24221,4847,35770,509,346],"class_list":{"0":"post-71220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-brandon-clarke","9":"tag-cam-spencer","10":"tag-cedric-coward","11":"tag-deaaron-fox-2","12":"tag-devin-vassell","13":"tag-division-opponents","14":"tag-ja-morant","15":"tag-javon-small","16":"tag-jordan-mclaughlin","17":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","18":"tag-points-per-game","19":"tag-san-antonio","20":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","21":"tag-san-antonio-news","22":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","23":"tag-scotty-pippen-jr","24":"tag-stephon-castle","25":"tag-the-grizzlies","26":"tag-the-spurs","27":"tag-ty-jerome","28":"tag-victor-wembanyama","29":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71220","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=71220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}