New Orleans Pelicans (13-39, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (19-29, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Milwaukee; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Pelicans -4.5; over\/under is 222.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans visits Milwaukee looking to break its three-game road skid.<\/p>\n The Bucks have gone 10-12 at home. Milwaukee is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 26.2 assists per game led by Ryan Rollins averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n The Pelicans are 5-20 in road games. New Orleans averages 13.3 turnovers per game and is 11-18 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n The Bucks are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points lower than the 48.0% the Pelicans allow to opponents. The Pelicans are shooting 45.9% from the field, 0.7% lower than the 46.6% the Bucks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Rollins is averaging 16.6 points, 5.6 assists and 1.5 steals for the Bucks. Kyle Kuzma is averaging 14.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Trey Murphy III is averaging 21.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Bucks: 2-8, averaging 105.6 points, 42.2 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Pelicans: 4-6, averaging 110.4 points, 46.3 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 8.9 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Bucks: Giannis Antetokounmpo: out (calf), Gary Harris: out (hamstring), Bobby Portis: out (hip), Kevin Porter Jr.: out (oblique), Taurean Prince: out (neck).<\/p>\n Pelicans: Dejounte Murray: out (leg).<\/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":"New Orleans Pelicans (13-39, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (19-29, 12th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3796],"tags":[78402,1297,2889,7,6,446,478,470,4073,4072,675,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-581508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-78402","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-new-orleans","15":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","16":"tag-neworleans","17":"tag-neworleanspelicans","18":"tag-pelicans","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116011547374220649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581508","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=581508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581508\/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=581508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}