Dallas Mavericks (21-43, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (33-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Atlanta; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will try to keep its five-game home win streak alive when the Hawks play Dallas.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are 15-16 on their home court. Atlanta is the league leader with 30.5 assists per game led by Jalen Johnson averaging 7.9.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks have gone 7-24 away from home. Dallas gives up 117.7 points to opponents and has been outscored by 4.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Hawks average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 12.4 per game the Mavericks allow. The Mavericks are shooting 46.8% from the field, 0.5% lower than the 47.3% the Hawks\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Johnson is averaging 22.9 points, 10.5 rebounds and 7.9 assists for the Hawks. Nickeil Alexander-Walker is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cooper Flagg is averaging 20.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the Mavericks. Brandon Williams is averaging 13.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 7-3, averaging 118.8 points, 48.7 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 10.1 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 107.7 points, 44.9 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 6.0 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hawks: Jonathan Kuminga: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Kyrie Irving: out for season (knee).<\/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":"Dallas Mavericks (21-43, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (33-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,10823,225,686,149,76733,1264,2330,2397,677,2990,867,967,6,446,379,66,2098,582],"class_list":["post-648396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlantahawks","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-williams","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-data-skrive","tag-dereck-lively-ii","tag-ga-state-wire","tag-georgia","tag-hawks","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116197766212120196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648396","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=648396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648396\/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=648396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}