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Indiana Pacers<\/a> (15-40, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards<\/a> (14-39, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Washington; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pacers -4.5; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Washington aims to stop its three-game skid when the Wizards play Indiana.<\/p>\n

The Wizards have gone 9-23 against Eastern Conference opponents. Washington allows 123.1 points and has been outscored by 10.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 11-26 against Eastern Conference opponents. Indiana has a 6-5 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are shooting 45.6% from the field this season, 2.7 percentage points lower than the 48.3% the Pacers allow to opponents. The Pacers’ 44.9% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.9 percentage points lower than the Wizards have allowed to their opponents (47.8%).<\/p>\n

The teams play for the third time this season. The Wizards won the last matchup 108-89 on Dec. 14, with Tre Johnson<\/a> scoring 14 points in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyshawn George<\/a> is averaging 15.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists for the Wizards. Will Riley<\/a> is averaging 12.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Andrew Nembhard<\/a> is averaging 17.4 points and 7.5 assists for the Pacers. Pascal Siakam<\/a> is averaging 18.6 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 46.4% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 4-6, averaging 112.0 points, 41.5 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 9.9 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pacers: 5-5, averaging 116.6 points, 42.0 rebounds, 30.1 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wizards: Anthony Davis<\/a>: out for season (finger), Tristan Vukcevic: day to day (illness), Cam Whitmore<\/a>: out for season (shoulder), D’Angelo Russell: day to day (not injury related), Alex Sarr<\/a>: out (hamstring), Trae Young: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Pacers: Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Ivica Zubac: out (ankle), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/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":"Indiana Pacers (15-40, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (14-39, 15th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[979,1784,495,7,4836,78812,126,6333,1407,6,279,952,682,468,3892,982,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-609380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-andrew-nembhard","10":"tag-anthony-davis","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-cam-whitmore","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-indiana-pacers","15":"tag-kyshawn-george","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-pascal-siakam","19":"tag-tre-johnson","20":"tag-washington","21":"tag-washington-wizards","22":"tag-washingtonwizards","23":"tag-will-riley","24":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116090498530187280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609380","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=609380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609380\/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=609380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}