Cleveland Cavaliers (49-29, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (25-53, 11th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Memphis, Tennessee; Monday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cavaliers -13.5; over\/under is 238.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Memphis aims to end its three-game home slide with a win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies have gone 14-26 at home. Memphis is 14-25 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 14.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 24-15 on the road. Cleveland ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference allowing just 115.1 points while holding opponents to 46.3% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are shooting 45.8% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points lower than the 46.3% the Cavaliers allow to opponents. The Cavaliers are shooting 48.0% from the field, 0.1% lower than the 48.1% the Grizzlies’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Cavaliers won the last matchup 108-100 on Nov. 15. Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points to help lead the Cavaliers to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cam Spencer is averaging 11.1 points and 5.5 assists for the Grizzlies. GG Jackson is averaging 15.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mitchell is averaging 27.8 points, 5.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Cavaliers. James Harden is averaging 3.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Grizzlies: 1-9, averaging 108.7 points, 34.1 rebounds, 24.1 assists, 9.6 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 120.7 points, 45.0 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Grizzlies: Santi Aldama: out for season (knee), Jahmai Mashack: day to day (neck), 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: out (ankle), Jaylen Wells: out for season (toe), GG Jackson: day to day (knee), Cam Spencer: day to day (back), Cedric Coward: day to day (back), Brandon Clarke: out for season (calf), Javon Small: day to day (thigh).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Jarrett Allen: out (knee), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Dean Wade: out (ankle), Jaylon Tyson: out (toe), Sam Merrill: out (hamstring).<\/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 Cleveland Cavaliers (49-29, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Memphis Grizzlies (25-53, 11th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-701015","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\/116356523278539810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701015","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=701015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701015\/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=701015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}