Detroit Pistons (39-13, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (32-22, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Pistons -1.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Raptors host the Detroit Pistons in Eastern Conference play Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Raptors are 24-14 against Eastern Conference opponents. Toronto is the best team in the Eastern Conference with 19.5 fast break points led by RJ Barrett averaging 3.8.<\/p>\n The Pistons have gone 25-7 against Eastern Conference opponents. Detroit is fourth in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.3 points per game and is shooting 48.0%.<\/p>\n The Raptors make 47.4% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than the Pistons have allowed to their opponents (44.1%). The Pistons score 5.1 more points per game (117.3) than the Raptors allow their opponents to score (112.2).<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes is averaging 19.4 points, 8.4 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.6 blocks for the Raptors. Brandon Ingram is averaging 23 points and 3.6 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Ausar Thompson is shooting 51.0% and averaging 10.4 points for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 7-3, averaging 117.0 points, 43.4 rebounds, 29.8 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Pistons: 7-3, averaging 117.8 points, 42.7 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 11.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: day to day (back), Collin Murray-Boyles: day to day (thumb).<\/p>\n Pistons: Ronald Holland II: day to day (personal).<\/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":"Detroit Pistons (39-13, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (32-22, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[214643,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":["post-459848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-214643","tag-article","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459848","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=459848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459848\/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=459848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}