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Indiana Pacers<\/a> (18-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (48-29, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Cleveland and Indiana meet on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have gone 30-18 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference with 28.3 assists per game led by James Harden<\/a> averaging 8.1.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 14-34 against Eastern Conference opponents. Indiana averages 13.7 turnovers per game and is 13-25 when turning the ball over less than opponents.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are shooting 48.0% from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points lower than the 49.1% the Pacers allow to opponents. The Pacers are shooting 45.9% from the field, 0.5% lower than the 46.4% the Cavaliers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the fourth time this season. The Cavaliers defeated the Pacers 120-116 in their last meeting on Jan. 7. Evan Mobley<\/a> led the Cavaliers with 20 points, and Pascal Siakam<\/a> led the Pacers with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Mitchell<\/a> is averaging 27.7 points, 5.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Cavaliers. Harden is averaging 20.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Siakam is averaging 24 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Pacers. Aaron Nesmith<\/a> is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 121.0 points, 44.2 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 6.6 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pacers: 3-7, averaging 123.0 points, 38.3 rebounds, 35.0 assists, 6.6 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 52.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 128.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cavaliers: Dean Wade: day to day (ankle), Jaylon Tyson<\/a>: out (toe).<\/p>\n

Pacers: T.J. McConnell<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), Andrew Nembhard<\/a>: day to day (back), Ivica Zubac: out for season (rib), Pascal Siakam: day to day (back), Jarace Walker<\/a>: day to day (back), Aaron Nesmith: day to day (neck), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/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":"Indiana Pacers (18-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (48-29, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[280,1784,7,193,864,576,78812,113,126,3866,560,643,2286,1407,6,114,279,3886],"class_list":{"0":"post-697446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-aaron-nesmith","9":"tag-andrew-nembhard","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-donovan-mitchell","13":"tag-evan-mobley","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-indiana","16":"tag-indiana-pacers","17":"tag-indianapacers","18":"tag-james-harden","19":"tag-jarace-walker","20":"tag-jaylon-tyson","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-pacers","24":"tag-pascal-siakam","25":"tag-t-j-mcconnell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116345417329880040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697446","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=697446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697446\/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=697446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}