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New York Knicks<\/a> (42-25, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers<\/a> (15-51, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Indianapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Knicks -11.5; over\/under is 227.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Indiana hosts New York looking to stop its seven-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Pacers have gone 11-30 against Eastern Conference opponents. Indiana is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 26.5 assists per game led by Andrew Nembhard<\/a> averaging 7.3.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are 27-15 in conference games. New York is fourth in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.2 points per game and is shooting 47.4%.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are shooting 45.0% from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points lower than the 45.7% the Knicks allow to opponents. The Knicks average 14.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.0 more made shots on average than the 11.7 per game the Pacers give up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last meeting on Feb. 11 the Pacers won 137-134 in overtime led by 30 points from Pascal Siakam<\/a>, while Jalen Brunson<\/a> scored 40 points for the Knicks.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jarace Walker<\/a> is averaging 11.1 points for the Pacers. Micah Potter<\/a> is averaging 13.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> is scoring 20.0 points per game with 11.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists for the Knicks. Brunson is averaging 22.1 points and 3.9 rebounds while shooting 41.8% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 0-10, averaging 112.9 points, 38.8 rebounds, 29.2 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 128.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Knicks: 6-4, averaging 114.2 points, 47.6 rebounds, 30.1 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pacers: Obi Toppin: day to day (foot), T.J. McConnell<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Pascal Siakam: day to day (knee), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles), Quenton Jackson: day to day (calf), Aaron Nesmith: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n

Knicks: Josh Hart<\/a>: day to day (knee), Karl-Anthony Towns: day to day (knee), Miles McBride<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/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":"New York Knicks (42-25, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (15-51, 15th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[1784,7,78812,113,126,3866,288,643,327,563,32137,2715,1407,6,191,114,279,3886],"class_list":["post-655871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-indiana-pacers","tag-andrew-nembhard","tag-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-jarace-walker","tag-josh-hart","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-micah-potter","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-pacers","tag-pascal-siakam","tag-t-j-mcconnell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116220994742654973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655871","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=655871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}