Washington Wizards (10-29, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (28-13, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Saturday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -13; over\/under is 232.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Washington is looking to break its four-game slide with a win against Denver.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 11-6 on their home court. Denver ranks eighth in the league with 28.4 assists per game led by Nikola Jokic averaging 11.0.<\/p>\n The Wizards are 4-17 on the road. Washington gives up 124.0 points to opponents and has been outscored by 11.3 points per game.<\/p>\n The Nuggets score 122.6 points per game, 1.4 fewer points than the 124.0 the Wizards give up. The Wizards average 12.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 fewer makes per game than the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Peyton Watson is averaging 13.8 points for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray is averaging 19.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Alex Sarr is scoring 16.9 points per game with 7.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Wizards. Tre Johnson is averaging 13.0 points and 2.6 rebounds while shooting 49.5% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 6-4, averaging 112.6 points, 38.5 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Wizards: 3-6, averaging 109.9 points, 42.4 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 8.5 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Jamal Murray: day to day (ankle), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Nikola Jokic: out (knee), Aaron Gordon: day to day (hamstring), Bruce Brown: day to day (knee), Jonas Valanciunas: out (calf), Christian Braun: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Wizards: Tristan Vukcevic: out (knee), Bilal Coulibaly: out (back), Cam Whitmore: out for season (shoulder), Khris Middleton: out (knee), Trae Young: out (quad).<\/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":"Washington Wizards (10-29, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (28-13, third in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[74569,1297,2889,7,301,187,3943,6,446,302,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-542395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-74569","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-denvernuggets","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-nuggets","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115909468384339373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542395","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=542395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}