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San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (36-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (32-20, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Tuesday, 10:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Spurs -8.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio visits the Los Angeles Lakers after Stephon Castle<\/a> scored 40 points in the Spurs’ 138-125 win over the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 21-13 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is seventh in the Western Conference scoring 116.0 points while shooting 49.9% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 22-13 against conference opponents. San Antonio averages 117.6 points and has outscored opponents by 5.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Lakers score 116.0 points per game, 3.8 more points than the 112.2 the Spurs allow. The Spurs are shooting 47.5% from the field, 1.0% lower than the 48.5% the Lakers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 107-91 on Jan. 8. Keldon Johnson<\/a> scored 27 points to help lead the Spurs to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: LeBron James<\/a> is averaging 21.8 points, 5.7 rebounds and 6.9 assists for the Lakers. Rui Hachimura<\/a> is averaging 12.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is averaging 19.5 points and 6.2 assists for the Spurs. Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is averaging 22.5 points and 11.8 rebounds while shooting 48.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 6-4, averaging 114.9 points, 40.5 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 51.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Spurs: 7-3, averaging 116.8 points, 46.5 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 6.9 steals and 7.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: Luka Doncic: out (hamstring), Adou Thiero: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Spurs: Lindy Waters III: out (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (36-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (32-20, fifth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,1314,78812,2850,185,150,1407,6,1012,969,474,4075,4074,534,930,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-594225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-deaaron-fox","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-keldon-johnson","12":"tag-lebron-james","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-rui-hachimura","17":"tag-san-antonio","18":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","19":"tag-sanantonio","20":"tag-sanantoniospurs","21":"tag-spurs","22":"tag-stephon-castle","23":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116045462007085761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594225","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=594225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}