New York Knicks (31-18, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (13-35, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Washington; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New York is looking to continue its six-game win streak with a victory over Washington.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are 8-19 against Eastern Conference opponents. Washington averages 15.2 turnovers per game and is 7-6 when it wins the turnover battle.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 21-11 in conference games. New York ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference with 26.8 assists per game led by Jalen Brunson averaging 6.1.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are shooting 45.8% from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points lower than the 46.2% the Knicks allow to opponents. The Knicks average 15.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 more made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Wizards allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Knicks won the last meeting 119-102 on Nov. 4, with Karl-Anthony Towns scoring 33 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kyshawn George is shooting 44.6% and averaging 15.5 points for the Wizards. Bub Carrington is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mikal Bridges is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Knicks. OG Anunoby is averaging 18.8 points and 5.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 3-7, averaging 110.4 points, 43.2 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 9.7 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 6-4, averaging 110.3 points, 48.5 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 100.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wizards: Tristan Vukcevic: out (hamstring), Cam Whitmore: out for season (shoulder), Tre Johnson: out (ankle), Alex Sarr: out (calf), Trae Young: out (quad).<\/p>\n
Knicks: Miles McBride: out (ankle).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (31-18, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (13-35, 14th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[78011,1297,2889,7,304,6,446,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-576972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-78011","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-knicks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116000257743504835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576972","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=576972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576972\/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=576972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}