Brooklyn Nets (12-34, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (15-33, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Jazz -2.5; over\/under is 227.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Utah takes on Brooklyn looking to break its four-game home skid.<\/p>\n The Jazz are 10-16 in home games. Utah is 7-22 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n The Nets are 6-17 in road games. Brooklyn is the worst team in the NBA with 40.1 rebounds per game led by Nic Claxton averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n The Jazz are shooting 46.8% from the field this season, 2.3 percentage points lower than the 49.1% the Nets allow to opponents. The Nets’ 44.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 5.0 percentage points lower than the Jazz have allowed to their opponents (49.3%).<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Jazz won 123-110 in the last matchup on Dec. 5. Lauri Markkanen led the Jazz with 30 points, and Noah Clowney led the Nets with 29 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Keyonte George is averaging 24.1 points and 6.6 assists for the Jazz. Brice Sensabaugh is averaging 16.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Claxton is scoring 12.4 points per game and averaging 7.5 rebounds for the Nets. Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 3.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 2-8, averaging 118.0 points, 40.8 rebounds, 32.0 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 129.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Nets: 1-9, averaging 103.5 points, 40.4 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Jazz: Cody Williams: day to day (illness), Jusuf Nurkic: day to day (illness), Georges Niang: out (foot), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Lauri Markkanen: out (rest), Kevin Love: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Egor Demin: day to day (injury management), Cam Thomas: day to day (injury management), Ziaire Williams: day to day (calf), Noah Clowney: day to day (back).<\/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":"Brooklyn Nets (12-34, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (15-33, 13th in the Western Conference) Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[77406,1297,2889,7,423,6,446,66,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-570447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-77406","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-jazz","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-utah","17":"tag-utah-jazz","18":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115983325849564279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570447","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=570447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570447\/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=570447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}