San Antonio Spurs (55-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (29-43, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Milwaukee; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio will attempt to build upon its seven-game win streak with a victory against Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
The Bucks have gone 16-19 at home. Milwaukee allows 116.6 points and has been outscored by 6.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 27-11 in road games. San Antonio ranks second in the league with 47.0 rebounds per game led by Victor Wembanyama averaging 11.2.<\/p>\n
The Bucks make 47.8% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.8 percentage points higher than the Spurs have allowed to their opponents (45.0%). The Spurs are shooting 48.1% from the field, 1.0% higher than the 47.1% the Bucks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 119-101 on Jan. 16, with Wembanyama scoring 22 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan Rollins is scoring 17.1 points per game with 4.6 rebounds and 5.6 assists for the Bucks. Bobby Portis is averaging 12.1 points and 5.2 rebounds while shooting 46.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox is scoring 18.9 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bucks: 2-8, averaging 105.8 points, 37.6 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 7.7 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 9-1, averaging 126.1 points, 49.3 rebounds, 31.9 assists, 5.7 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bucks: Gary Harris: day to day (groin), Kevin Porter Jr.: day to day (knee), Kyle Kuzma: day to day (achilles), Giannis Antetokounmpo: out (ankle), Bobby Portis: day to day (wrist), Myles Turner: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Spurs: De’Aaron Fox: day to day (back), Luke Kornet: day to day (knee), David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (55-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (29-43, 11th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[86549,1297,2889,7,6,446,969,474,4075,4074,66,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-681641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-86549","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-sanantoniospurs","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116300010446721499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681641","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=681641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681641\/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=681641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}