Dallas Mavericks (25-53, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (40-38, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Tuesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Clippers -11; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Dallas visits the Los Angeles Clippers after Cooper Flagg scored 45 points in the Mavericks\u2019 134-128 win against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n The Clippers are 23-25 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles ranks last in the Western Conference recording just 40.5 rebounds per game led by Kawhi Leonard averaging 6.3.<\/p>\n The Mavericks are 14-34 in conference matchups. Dallas is second in the Western Conference scoring 53.2 points per game in the paint led by Flagg averaging 11.4.<\/p>\n The Clippers average 114.0 points per game, 5.4 fewer points than the 119.4 the Mavericks give up. The Mavericks are shooting 46.8% from the field, 0.2% lower than the 47.0% the Clippers\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Clippers won the last matchup 138-131 in overtime on March 22, with Darius Garland scoring 41 points in the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Leonard is averaging 28 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.9 steals for the Clippers. Garland is averaging 18.6 points and 5.8 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Flagg is averaging 21.1 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Mavericks. Naji Marshall is averaging 14.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 6-4, averaging 117.6 points, 38.8 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 10.6 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 50.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 118.2 points, 42.8 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 128.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Clippers: Isaiah Jackson: out (ankle), Yanic Konan Niederhauser: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal: out for season (hip).<\/p>\n Mavericks: Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Daniel Gafford: day to day (shoulder), Caleb Martin: out (foot), Kyrie Irving: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (25-53, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (40-38, eighth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,3086,6461,160,559,225,686,149,2619,791,76733,1264,2542,529,967,4034,192,4032,251,135,150,4033,4031,5989,6,446,66,2098,582],"class_list":{"0":"post-701883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bradley-beal","10":"tag-caleb-martin","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-clippers","13":"tag-cooper-flagg","14":"tag-dallas","15":"tag-dallas-mavericks","16":"tag-daniel-gafford","17":"tag-darius-garland","18":"tag-data-skrive","19":"tag-dereck-lively-ii","20":"tag-isaiah-jackson","21":"tag-kawhi-leonard","22":"tag-kyrie-irving","23":"tag-la","24":"tag-la-clippers","25":"tag-laclippers","26":"tag-los-angeles","27":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","28":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","29":"tag-losangeles","30":"tag-losangelesclippers","31":"tag-naji-marshall","32":"tag-nba","33":"tag-nba-basketball","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-texas","36":"tag-tx-state-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116359346543564831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701883","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=701883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}