San Antonio Spurs (57-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (36-39, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Francisco; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio faces the Golden State Warriors after Victor Wembanyama scored 41 points in the Spurs’ 129-114 win against the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n
The Warriors have gone 23-23 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State is second in the Western Conference with 29.0 assists per game led by Draymond Green averaging 5.4.<\/p>\n
The Spurs have gone 32-14 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio is sixth in the Western Conference with 11.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Luke Kornet averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n
The Warriors average 15.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.8 more made shots on average than the 13.1 per game the Spurs allow. The Spurs are shooting 48.2% from the field, 0.4% higher than the 47.8% the Warriors’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Spurs won the last matchup 126-113 on Feb. 12, with De’Aaron Fox scoring 27 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brandin Podziemski is averaging 13.3 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Warriors. Gui Santos is averaging 16.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Fox is averaging 18.6 points and 6.2 assists for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 23.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 4-6, averaging 112.9 points, 39.6 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 9.8 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 9-1, averaging 124.7 points, 51.3 rebounds, 32.0 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Warriors: Quinten Post: day to day (foot), Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Will Richard: day to day (heel), Al Horford: day to day (calf), Moses Moody: out for season (knee), Stephen Curry: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Spurs: 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 and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press San Antonio Spurs (57-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (36-39,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-689535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-sanantoniospurs","14":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116322815708861722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689535","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=689535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689535\/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=689535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}