Cleveland Cavaliers (29-20, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (29-19, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Friday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cavaliers -4.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers after Dillon Brooks scored 40 points in the Phoenix Suns’ 114-96 victory against the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n The Suns are 16-6 in home games. Phoenix ranks fifth in the NBA giving up just 111.2 points per game while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n The Cavaliers have gone 12-9 away from home. Cleveland ranks seventh in the Eastern Conference scoring 50.3 points per game in the paint led by Evan Mobley averaging 10.7.<\/p>\n The Suns are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 46.3% the Cavaliers allow to opponents. The Cavaliers average 8.0 more points per game (119.2) than the Suns allow (111.2).<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Dec. 31 the Cavaliers won 129-113 led by 34 points from Donovan Mitchell, while Devin Booker scored 32 points for the Suns.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Collin Gillespie is scoring 13.4 points per game with 4.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists for the Suns. Brooks is averaging 19.8 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 39.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Mitchell is averaging 29.4 points, 5.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Cavaliers. Jaylon Tyson is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 6-4, averaging 111.1 points, 43.1 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 119.1 points, 44.6 rebounds, 29.5 assists, 8.2 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.2 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Suns: Jalen Green: day to day (injury management), Devin Booker: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Darius Garland: out (foot).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (29-20, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (29-19, seventh in the Western Conference) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[207059,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":["post-438571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-207059","tag-article","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438571","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=438571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}