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Houston Rockets<\/a> (43-29, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> (24-48, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Memphis, Tennessee; Friday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Houston will attempt to end its four-game road skid when the Rockets take on Memphis.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are 6-8 against opponents in the Southwest Division. Memphis gives up 119.1 points to opponents and has been outscored by 4.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 7-6 against the rest of their division. Houston has a 20-16 record against teams over .500.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies score 115.1 points per game, 4.9 more points than the 110.2 the Rockets give up. The Rockets average 11.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.0 fewer made shots on average than the 14.2 per game the Grizzlies give up.<\/p>\n

The two teams play for the third time this season. The Rockets defeated the Grizzlies 108-99 in their last matchup on Jan. 27. Kevin Durant<\/a> led the Rockets with 33 points, and Santi Aldama<\/a> led the Grizzlies with 17 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cam Spencer<\/a> is shooting 46.7% and averaging 11.1 points for the Grizzlies. Javon Small<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Durant is averaging 26 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Rockets. Reed Sheppard<\/a> is averaging 2.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 1-9, averaging 111.6 points, 37.2 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Rockets: 4-6, averaging 111.3 points, 45.7 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Grizzlies: Santi Aldama: out for season (knee), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: out for season (finger), Ja Morant: out for season (elbow), Scotty Pippen<\/a> Jr.: out for season (toe), Zach Edey: out for season (ankle), Ty Jerome<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Jaylen Wells<\/a>: day to day (toe), Jahmai Mashack: day to day (ankle), Brandon Clarke<\/a>: out for season (calf).<\/p>\n

Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (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":"Houston Rockets (43-29, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (24-48, 12th in the Western Conference) Memphis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,2710,8675,78812,294,194,3499,2597,938,293,177,4070,1407,6,1081,1185,627,962,1201],"class_list":["post-679772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-clarke","tag-cam-spencer","tag-event_preview","tag-grizzlies","tag-houston-rockets","tag-javon-small","tag-jaylen-wells","tag-kevin-durant","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-reed-sheppard","tag-santi-aldama","tag-scotty-pippen-jr","tag-steven-adams","tag-ty-jerome"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116294686239453001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679772","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=679772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}