Cleveland Cavaliers (32-21, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (34-19, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Monday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland will try to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory against Denver.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 14-10 in home games. Denver is ninth in the league with 28.0 assists per game. Jamal Murray leads the Nuggets averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 15-10 on the road. Cleveland has a 1-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets make 49.5% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.0 percentage points higher than the Cavaliers have allowed to their opponents (46.5%). The Cavaliers average 119.7 points per game, 3.4 more than the 116.3 the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Cavaliers won the last meeting 113-108 on Jan. 3, with Donovan Mitchell scoring 33 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tim Hardaway Jr. is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 23.4 points and 3.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jarrett Allen is scoring 14.3 points per game and averaging 8.1 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Mitchell is averaging 27.6 points and 3.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 114.7 points, 43.1 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 118.2 points, 45.5 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 10.3 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nuggets: Spencer Jones: out (concussion), Tamar Bates: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Dean Wade: 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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (32-21, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (34-19, 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":[3772],"tags":[79249,1297,2889,7,306,305,193,3846,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-590337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-79249","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-cavaliers","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","15":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-basketball","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034648462250454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590337","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=590337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590337\/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=590337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}