New York Knicks (40-23, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (39-24, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Friday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -1.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The New York Knicks take on the Denver Nuggets in cross-conference play.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 17-12 in home games. Denver is 7-9 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n The Knicks are 17-14 in road games. New York scores 116.8 points while outscoring opponents by 6.1 points per game.<\/p>\n The Nuggets make 49.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.6 percentage points higher than the Knicks have allowed to their opponents (45.7%). The Knicks average 14.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 more made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Knicks won 134-127 in overtime in the last meeting on Feb. 5. Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 42 points, and Jamal Murray led the Nuggets with 39 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Nikola Jokic is averaging 28.6 points, 12.6 rebounds and 10.4 assists for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 24.5 points and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Karl-Anthony Towns is scoring 19.7 points per game and averaging 11.8 rebounds for the Knicks. Brunson is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 120.7 points, 46.9 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 6.7 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Knicks: 6-4, averaging 114.2 points, 44.7 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.1 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nuggets: Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring), Cameron Johnson: day to day (ankle), Spencer Jones: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n Knicks: Josh Hart: day to day (back), Miles McBride: out (ankle).<\/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":"New York Knicks (40-23, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (39-24, fifth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[83566,1297,2889,7,304,6,446,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-642859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-83566","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-knicks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116181542135483461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642859","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=642859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}