Denver Nuggets (39-25, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (50-15, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to keep its four-game home win streak intact when the Thunder take on Denver.<\/p>\n
The Thunder have gone 9-3 against division opponents. Oklahoma City is second in the Western Conference scoring 118.6 points while shooting 48.1% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 23-13 against Western Conference opponents. Denver has a 16-18 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Thunder’s 13.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.2 more made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Nuggets allow. The Nuggets average 13.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 fewer makes per game than the Thunder give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the third time this season. In the last meeting on Feb. 28 the Thunder won 127-121 in overtime led by 36 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, while Jamal Murray scored 39 points for the Nuggets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 31.6 points and 6.4 assists for the Thunder. Isaiah Joe is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikola Jokic is averaging 28.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 10.3 assists for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 24.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 8-2, averaging 110.1 points, 45.7 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nuggets: 5-5, averaging 119.3 points, 45.4 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 6.4 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Thunder: Alex Caruso: day to day (hip), Ajay Mitchell: day to day (abdomen), Branden Carlson: day to day (back), Jalen Williams: day to day (hamstring), Chet Holmgren: day to day (illness), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Isaiah Hartenstein: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Nuggets: Peyton Watson: out (hamstring), Jamal Murray: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
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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 (39-25, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (50-15, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[83869,1297,2889,7,301,187,3943,6,446,302,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-646780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-83869","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-denvernuggets","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-nuggets","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116192571746783823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646780","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=646780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646780\/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=646780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}