Phoenix Suns (41-33, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (25-49, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Memphis, Tennessee; Monday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix will attempt to stop its four-game road losing streak when the Suns play Memphis.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies have gone 19-29 against Western Conference teams. Memphis has a 6-31 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n
The Suns have gone 26-21 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix has a 7-10 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are shooting 45.8% from the field this season, 1.3 percentage points lower than the 47.1% the Suns allow to opponents. The Suns’ 45.4% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.4 percentage points lower than the Grizzlies have allowed to their opponents (47.8%).<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Suns won 117-98 in the last matchup on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cedric Coward is scoring 13.5 points per game with 6.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Grizzlies. Olivier-Maxence Prosper is averaging 15.0 points and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 53.9% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Collin Gillespie is averaging 13.1 points and 4.8 assists for the Suns. Devin Booker is averaging 28.4 points and 3.7 rebounds while shooting 46.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 2-8, averaging 110.6 points, 36.8 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 10.5 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 43.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Suns: 4-6, averaging 116.5 points, 41.7 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Grizzlies: DeJon Jarreau: day to day (elbow), Santi Aldama: out for season (knee), Taylor Hendricks: day to day (thumb), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: out for season (finger), Ja Morant: out for season (elbow), Scotty Pippen Jr.: out for season (toe), Zach Edey: out for season (ankle), Ty Jerome: day to day (ankle), Jaylen Wells: day to day (toe), Taj Gibson: day to day (foot), Cam Spencer: day to day (back), Brandon Clarke: out for season (calf).<\/p>\n
Suns: Dillon Brooks: out (hand), Mark Williams: out (foot), Haywood Highsmith: day to day (knee), Amir Coffey: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Phoenix Suns (41-33, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (25-49, 11th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-686875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116314924905137468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686875","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=686875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}