Golden State Warriors (36-38, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (47-28, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Sunday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Golden State will attempt to keep its three-game win streak alive when the Warriors take on Denver.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets are 29-16 against Western Conference opponents. Denver is 21-20 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are 23-22 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State ranks fourth in the league with 29.0 assists per game led by Draymond Green averaging 5.4.<\/p>\n
The 121.3 points per game the Nuggets score are 6.4 more points than the Warriors give up (114.9). The Warriors average 16.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.6 more made shots on average than the 13.4 per game the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. In the last meeting on Feb. 22 the Warriors won 128-117 led by 23 points from Moses Moody, while Nikola Jokic scored 35 points for the Nuggets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jokic is averaging 27.9 points, 12.8 rebounds and 10.8 assists for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray is averaging 26.3 points and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Brandin Podziemski is averaging 13.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Warriors. Gui Santos is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 8-2, averaging 128.3 points, 45.4 rebounds, 33.3 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 51.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Warriors: 4-6, averaging 116.0 points, 40.4 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 9.8 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Nuggets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Warriors: Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Seth Curry: out (adductor), Al Horford: out (calf), Quinten Post: out (foot), Moses Moody: out for season (knee), Stephen Curry: out (knee), De’Anthony Melton: out (knee).<\/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":"Golden State Warriors (36-38, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (47-28, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[86727,1297,7,301,187,3943,6,446,302,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-683946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-86727","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-denver-nuggets","13":"tag-denvernuggets","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-nuggets","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116306420586024382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683946","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=683946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683946\/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=683946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}