Milwaukee Bucks (22-30, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (42-13, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -12.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Bucks visit the Oklahoma City Thunder in non-conference action.<\/p>\n The Thunder are 22-6 on their home court. Oklahoma City scores 120.2 points and has outscored opponents by 12.2 points per game.<\/p>\n The Bucks are 10-18 in road games. Milwaukee is 4-6 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n The Thunder average 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer make per game than the Bucks give up (14.4). The Bucks average 14.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 more makes per game than the Thunder allow.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Thunder won 122-102 in the last matchup on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Chet Holmgren is averaging 17.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 1.9 blocks for the Thunder. Isaiah Joe is averaging 13.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Portis is averaging 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds for the Bucks. Myles Turner is averaging 13.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 5-5, averaging 114.6 points, 42.8 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.8 points per game.<\/p>\n Bucks: 4-6, averaging 109.4 points, 43.7 rebounds, 25.9 assists, 5.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.6 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Thunder: Ajay Mitchell: day to day (abdomen), Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: day to day (hamstring), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: out (abdomen), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n Bucks: Giannis Antetokounmpo: out (calf), Taurean Prince: out (neck), Ryan Rollins: day to day (foot).<\/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":"Milwaukee Bucks (22-30, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (42-13, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[5577,7,507,366,76733,123,1624,364,102,121,367,6,446,3110,586,310,475,179,3966,3965,2763,75525,209,66,281,954,312,580,1980],"class_list":["post-598443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-ajay-mitchell","tag-basketball","tag-bobby-portis","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-data-skrive","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-isaiah-joe","tag-jalen-williams","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-myles-turner","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nikola-topic","tag-ok-state-wire","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-ryan-rollins","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-taurean-prince","tag-thomas-sorber","tag-thunder","tag-wi-state-wire","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116056554415916388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598443","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=598443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}