Cleveland Cavaliers (41-27, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (28-39, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Milwaukee; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Ryan Rollins and the Milwaukee Bucks host Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
The Bucks are 9-5 against Central Division opponents. Milwaukee is the worst team in the Eastern Conference scoring 43.1 points per game in the paint.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 8-5 in division play. Cleveland is 2-5 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Bucks are shooting 48.0% from the field this season, 1.7 percentage points higher than the 46.3% the Cavaliers allow to opponents. The Cavaliers average 119.1 points per game, 3.0 more than the 116.1 the Bucks allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Bucks won 118-116 in the last matchup on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Rollins is averaging 16.8 points, 5.6 assists and 1.5 steals for the Bucks. Giannis Antetokounmpo is averaging 15.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
James Harden is scoring 24.0 points per game and averaging 4.9 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Jaylon Tyson is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bucks: 2-8, averaging 104.5 points, 39.7 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 7.7 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 5-5, averaging 115.6 points, 41.3 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 7.2 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bucks: Ousmane Dieng: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Jaylon Tyson: day to day (ankle), Craig Porter Jr.: day to day (groin), Sam Merrill: day to day (hamstring), Tyrese Proctor: day to day (quadricep), Jarrett Allen: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (41-27, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (28-39, 11th in the Eastern Conference) Milwaukee;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,193,864,1409,123,102,121,3871,6,2763],"class_list":{"0":"post-661597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","11":"tag-donovan-mitchell","12":"tag-eastern-conference","13":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","14":"tag-milwaukee","15":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","16":"tag-milwaukeebucks","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-ryan-rollins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116240588834667707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661597","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=661597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}