Memphis Grizzlies (7-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (5-13, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Clippers host the Memphis Grizzlies in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
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The Clippers are 4-7 in conference games. Los Angeles allows 118.2 points and has been outscored by 6.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 6-6 against conference opponents. Memphis is seventh in the NBA with 29.1 assists per game led by Vince Williams Jr. averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n
The Clippers average 112.2 points per game, 5.3 fewer points than the 117.5 the Grizzlies allow. The Grizzlies’ 43.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.0 percentage points lower than the Clippers have given up to their opponents (47.9%).<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: James Harden is averaging 27.9 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists for the Clippers. Kawhi Leonard is averaging 19.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Santi Aldama is averaging 13.8 points and 6.6 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Jaren Jackson Jr. is averaging 27 points and three steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 2-8, averaging 113.5 points, 39.2 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Grizzlies: 4-6, averaging 112.1 points, 48.1 rebounds, 30.8 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Jordan Miller: day to day (hamstring), Derrick Jones Jr.: out (knee), Bogdan Bogdanovic: day to day (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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies (7-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (5-13, 12th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,1303,3086,2710,530,294,178,560,496,3499,6483,529,251,135,293,177,4070,6,4485,1185,627,181,1201,1299,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-438276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bogdan-bogdanovic","10":"tag-bradley-beal","11":"tag-brandon-clarke","12":"tag-derrick-jones-jr","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-ja-morant","15":"tag-james-harden","16":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","17":"tag-javon-small","18":"tag-jordan-miller","19":"tag-kawhi-leonard","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","22":"tag-memphis","23":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","24":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-points-per-game","27":"tag-santi-aldama","28":"tag-scotty-pippen-jr","29":"tag-the-grizzlies","30":"tag-ty-jerome","31":"tag-vince-williams-jr","32":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115620446580307876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}