Indiana Pacers (6-21, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (6-22, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
New Orleans; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana heads into the matchup with New Orleans as losers of three in a row.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 4-12 on their home court. New Orleans has a 2-18 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are 1-11 on the road. Indiana is 3-13 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans’ 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.7 fewer made shots on average than the 11.7 per game the Pacers give up. The Pacers’ 43.2% shooting percentage from the field this season is 5.9 percentage points lower than the Pelicans have given up to their opponents (49.1%).<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III is averaging 21.3 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.7 steals for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey is averaging 29.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jay Huff is shooting 42.4% and averaging 8.0 points for the Pacers. Andrew Nembhard is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 3-7, averaging 122.6 points, 43.5 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pacers: 4-6, averaging 109.9 points, 42.6 rebounds, 23.1 assists, 7.8 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pelicans: Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/p>\n
Pacers: Obi Toppin: out (foot), Ben Sheppard: day to day (calf), Aaron Nesmith: out (knee), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles), Tony Bradley: day to day (thumb).<\/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":"Indiana Pacers (6-21, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (6-22, 15th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[177219,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-357801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-177219","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}