Golden State Warriors (13-14, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (14-12, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Golden State plays the Phoenix Suns after Stephen Curry scored 48 points in the Warriors’ 136-131 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
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The Suns have gone 13-11 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix is ninth in the Western Conference scoring 114.8 points while shooting 46.5% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are 10-9 in Western Conference play. Golden State has a 7-9 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Suns are shooting 46.5% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points higher than the 46.2% the Warriors allow to opponents. The Warriors average 16.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.5 more made shots on average than the 12.7 per game the Suns give up.<\/p>\n
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The two teams play for the second time this season. The Warriors defeated the Suns 118-107 in their last matchup on Nov. 5. Curry led the Warriors with 28 points, and Devin Booker led the Suns with 38 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Booker is scoring 25.1 points per game with 4.4 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Suns. Mark Williams is averaging 20.0 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 90.0% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Butler III is averaging 19.1 points, 5.9 rebounds, five assists and 1.6 steals for the Warriors. Curry is averaging 12.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 4-6, averaging 108.0 points, 39.6 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 11.0 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Warriors: 4-6, averaging 114.4 points, 43.7 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Suns: Isaiah Livers: day to day (hip), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Warriors: Al Horford: day to day (back), Pat Spencer: out (personal).<\/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":"Golden State Warriors (13-14, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (14-12, seventh in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[869,7,2292,164,29673,861,1103,6,868,2065,472,4045,4485,471,573,604,6445,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-478378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-devin-booker","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-isaiah-livers","13":"tag-jalen-green","14":"tag-jimmy-butler-iii","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-pat-spencer","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-suns","19":"tag-phoenixsuns","20":"tag-points-per-game","21":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","22":"tag-stephen-curry","23":"tag-suns","24":"tag-the-suns","25":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115733775243240208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478378","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=478378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478378\/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=478378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}