Denver Nuggets (37-24, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (18-42, 14th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Salt Lake City; Monday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -11.5; over\/under is 243.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Utah plays Denver looking to end its three-game home skid.<\/p>\n The Jazz are 10-29 in conference play. Utah is 7-9 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 15.3 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 5-4 against the rest of the division. Denver has a 15-17 record against opponents above .500.<\/p>\n The Jazz score 117.8 points per game, 1.8 more points than the 116.0 the Nuggets allow. The Nuggets average 13.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 fewer made shots on average than the 15.5 per game the Jazz give up.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Jazz 135-112 in their last matchup on Dec. 23. Jamal Murray led the Nuggets with 27 points, and Lauri Markkanen led the Jazz with 27 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Keyonte George is averaging 23.6 points and 6.5 assists for the Jazz. Isaiah Collier is averaging 17.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Tim Hardaway Jr. is shooting 45.9% and averaging 14.0 points for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 3-7, averaging 116.4 points, 45.1 rebounds, 28.1 assists, 11.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Nuggets: 4-6, averaging 122.2 points, 48.2 rebounds, 29.1 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Jazz: Lauri Markkanen: out (ankle), Vince Williams Jr.: out for season (acl), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Jusuf Nurkic: out for season (nose), Jaren Jackson Jr.: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n Nuggets: Tamar Bates: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring), Cameron Johnson: day to day (ankle), Spencer Jones: out (shoulder).<\/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":"Denver Nuggets (37-24, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (18-42, 14th in the Western Conference) Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[877,2889,7,2726,585,765,76733,301,187,957,762,6684,423,5088,955,976,6,446,1146,26517,66,6254,911,6007,422,427,3972,4078,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-634010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-aaron-gordon","9":"tag-athlete-injuries","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cameron-johnson","12":"tag-co-state-wire","13":"tag-colorado","14":"tag-data-skrive","15":"tag-denver","16":"tag-denver-nuggets","17":"tag-isaiah-collier","18":"tag-jamal-murray","19":"tag-jaren-jackson","20":"tag-jazz","21":"tag-jusuf-nurkic","22":"tag-keyonte-george","23":"tag-lauri-markkanen","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-nba-basketball","26":"tag-peyton-watson","27":"tag-spencer-jones","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-tamar-bates","30":"tag-tim-hardaway-jr","31":"tag-ut-state-wire","32":"tag-utah","33":"tag-utah-jazz","34":"tag-utahjazz","35":"tag-vince-williams","36":"tag-walker-kessler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116158519367407194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634010","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=634010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634010\/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=634010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}