Atlanta Hawks (15-18, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (27-5, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta is looking to end its six-game losing streak with a win over Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
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The Thunder are 15-2 on their home court. Oklahoma City is seventh in the Western Conference with 25.8 assists per game led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander averaging 6.4.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are 10-7 in road games. Atlanta is second in the league scoring 17.8 fast break points per game led by Jalen Johnson averaging 3.9.<\/p>\n
The Thunder’s 13.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.1 more made shots on average than the 13.5 per game the Hawks allow. The Hawks are shooting 48.3% from the field, 5.0% higher than the 43.3% the Thunder’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Thunder defeated the Hawks 117-100 in their last meeting on Oct. 25. Chet Holmgren led the Thunder with 31 points, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker led the Hawks with 17 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 32 points, 6.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Thunder. Holmgren is averaging 29.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Johnson is averaging 23.7 points, 10.4 rebounds and 8.4 assists for the Hawks. Onyeka Okongwu is averaging 6.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 6-4, averaging 119.9 points, 43.6 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 10.4 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hawks: 2-8, averaging 123.2 points, 41.4 rebounds, 32.5 assists, 7.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 130.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Thunder: Nikola Topic: out (groin), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Ousmane Dieng: day to day (calf), Jaylin Williams: day to day (foot).<\/p>\n
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Hawks: Kristaps Porzingis: out (reconditioning), N’Faly Dante: out for season (knee), Trae Young: day to day (quad).<\/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":"Atlanta Hawks (15-18, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (27-5, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,366,1409,677,2990,6563,871,6,379,475,179,493,6609,4485,209,954,494,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-502731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-chet-holmgren","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-hawks","15":"tag-jalen-johnson","16":"tag-jaylin-williams","17":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","20":"tag-oklahoma-city","21":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","22":"tag-onyeka-okongwu","23":"tag-ousmane-dieng","24":"tag-points-per-game","25":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","26":"tag-thomas-sorber","27":"tag-trae-young","28":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115801683738137437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502731","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=502731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502731\/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=502731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}