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Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> (23-30, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (15-41, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

New Orleans; Friday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pelicans -3.5; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Bucks take on the New Orleans Pelicans in non-conference play.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans have gone 9-20 in home games. New Orleans is 6-18 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n

The Bucks are 11-18 on the road. Milwaukee is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 32.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> averaging 7.2.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are shooting 46.2% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 46.4% the Bucks allow to opponents. The Bucks are shooting 48.1% from the field, 0.3% higher than the 47.8% the Pelicans’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Bucks won the last matchup 141-137 in overtime on Feb. 5, with Ryan Rollins<\/a> scoring 27 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III<\/a> is averaging 22.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey<\/a> is averaging 21.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rollins is averaging 16.9 points, 5.5 assists and 1.5 steals for the Bucks. AJ Green<\/a> is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 5-5, averaging 114.2 points, 44.5 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 8.4 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bucks: 5-5, averaging 110.2 points, 44.7 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pelicans: Yves Missi: day to day (calf), Trey Murphy III: day to day (shoulder), Micah Peavy: day to day (toe), Dejounte Murray: out (achilles).<\/p>\n

Bucks: Giannis Antetokounmpo: day to day (calf), Myles Turner<\/a>: day to day (calf), Taurean Prince<\/a>: out (neck), Ryan Rollins: day to day (foot).<\/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":"Milwaukee Bucks (23-30, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (15-41, 14th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[2745,7,78812,123,121,367,1407,6,478,470,4073,4072,675,2763,1020,281,6514],"class_list":{"0":"post-611258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-aj-green","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","12":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","13":"tag-myles-turner","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-new-orleans","17":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","18":"tag-neworleans","19":"tag-neworleanspelicans","20":"tag-pelicans","21":"tag-ryan-rollins","22":"tag-saddiq-bey","23":"tag-taurean-prince","24":"tag-trey-murphy-iii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116096410977586815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611258","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=611258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611258\/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=611258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}