Toronto Raptors (40-31, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (35-36, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles hosts the Toronto Raptors after Darius Garland scored 41 points in the Los Angeles Clippers’ 138-131 overtime victory over the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n
The Clippers have gone 20-15 at home. Los Angeles has a 6-8 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 21-15 on the road. Toronto ranks eighth in the NBA scoring 51.9 points per game in the paint led by Scottie Barnes averaging 10.5.<\/p>\n
The Clippers’ 12.3 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.5 fewer made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Raptors allow. The Raptors average 11.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.9 fewer made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Clippers allow.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Clippers won the last meeting 121-117 in overtime on Jan. 17. Jordan Miller scored 19 points to help lead the Clippers to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kawhi Leonard is averaging 28.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and two steals for the Clippers. Garland is averaging 16.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Barnes is averaging 18.6 points, 7.8 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. RJ Barrett is averaging 22.7 points and 5.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 5-4, averaging 122.0 points, 37.6 rebounds, 25.5 assists, 11.2 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 51.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Raptors: 5-5, averaging 117.5 points, 39.5 rebounds, 29.4 assists, 9.0 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Yanic Konan Niederhauser: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal: out for season (hip), Bennedict Mathurin: out (toe), John Collins: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: out (back), Immanuel Quickley: out (foot), Brandon Ingram: out (heel).<\/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":"Toronto Raptors (40-31, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (35-36, eighth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[86105,1297,7,6,446,681,66,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-676230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-86105","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-raptors","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-raptors","17":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116283989479369373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676230","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=676230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676230\/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=676230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}