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San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (58-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets<\/a> (49-28, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Denver; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio plays the Denver Nuggets after Victor Wembanyama<\/a> scored 41 points in the Spurs’ 127-113 victory over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 31-16 in Western Conference games. Denver leads the Western Conference with 121.4 points and is shooting 49.5%.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 33-14 in conference matchups. San Antonio averages 119.6 points and has outscored opponents by 8.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets average 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 more made shot on average than the 13.1 per game the Spurs give up. The Spurs average 13.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 more makes per game than the Nuggets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Nuggets won 136-131 in the last meeting on March 13. Jamal Murray<\/a> led the Nuggets with 39 points, and Stephon Castle<\/a> led the Spurs with 30 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nikola Jokic<\/a> is averaging 27.7 points, 13 rebounds and 10.8 assists for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 25.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.1 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is averaging 18.5 points and 6.2 assists for the Spurs. Julian Champagnie<\/a> is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 8-2, averaging 126.4 points, 45.8 rebounds, 33.1 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Spurs: 10-0, averaging 124.3 points, 51.2 rebounds, 32.0 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nuggets: Zeke Nnaji: day to day (hip), Peyton Watson: day to day (hamstring), Tim Hardaway<\/a> Jr.: day to day (knee), Spencer Jones<\/a>: day to day (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Victor Wembanyama: out (injury management).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (58-18, second in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (49-28, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,1314,301,187,3943,78812,762,4076,1407,6,253,302,474,26517,930,911,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-695501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-deaaron-fox","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-denvernuggets","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-jamal-murray","15":"tag-julian-champagnie","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nikola-jokic","19":"tag-nuggets","20":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","21":"tag-spencer-jones","22":"tag-stephon-castle","23":"tag-tim-hardaway-jr","24":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116339442165774526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695501","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=695501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695501\/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=695501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}