Golden State Warriors (27-24, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (30-20, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Collin Gillespie and the Phoenix Suns host Brandin Podziemski and the Golden State Warriors in Western Conference play.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 20-14 in Western Conference games. Phoenix has a 4-6 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are 17-14 in Western Conference play. Golden State ranks fifth in the Western Conference shooting 36.5% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Suns average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 more made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the Warriors allow. The Warriors average 16.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 4.3 more made shots on average than the 12.1 per game the Suns allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Warriors won the last matchup 119-116 on Dec. 21. Stephen Curry scored 28 points to help lead the Warriors to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Gillespie is averaging 13.5 points and 4.6 assists for the Suns. Dillon Brooks is averaging 20.6 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Podziemski is averaging 12.1 points and 3.6 assists for the Warriors. Moses Moody is averaging 14.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 6-4, averaging 109.7 points, 41.0 rebounds, 23.1 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Warriors: 5-5, averaging 119.1 points, 40.3 rebounds, 30.4 assists, 11.4 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Suns: Jalen Green: out (hip), Devin Booker: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Warriors: Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), LJ Cryer: out (hamstring), Jonathan Kuminga: out (knee), Stephen Curry: out (knee), Seth Curry: out (back).<\/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":"Golden State Warriors (27-24, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (30-20, sixth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[78431,1297,7,6,446,2065,472,4045,66,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-581789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-78431","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-suns","15":"tag-phoenixsuns","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116012337440090043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581789","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=581789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581789\/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=581789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}