Atlanta Hawks (45-34, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (50-29, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cleveland seeks to continue its three-game win streak with a victory against Atlanta.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 31-18 in conference games. Cleveland is seventh in the NBA with 28.4 assists per game. James Harden leads the Cavaliers averaging 8.1.<\/p>\n
The Hawks are 26-23 in Eastern Conference play. Atlanta ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference scoring 51.6 points per game in the paint led by Jalen Johnson averaging 11.7.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are shooting 48.1% from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points higher than the 47.3% the Hawks allow to opponents. The Hawks average 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 more makes per game than the Cavaliers allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last meeting on Nov. 29 the Hawks won 130-123 led by 30 points from Nickeil Alexander-Walker, while Donovan Mitchell scored 42 points for the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Evan Mobley is averaging 18.2 points, 8.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.7 blocks for the Cavaliers. Sam Merrill is averaging 10.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dyson Daniels is shooting 51.7% and averaging 11.8 points for the Hawks. Alexander-Walker is averaging 3.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 122.6 points, 45.2 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 7.8 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hawks: 7-3, averaging 121.0 points, 43.2 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 9.9 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cavaliers: James Harden: day to day (personal), Max Strus: day to day (injury management), Dean Wade: day to day (ankle), Jaylon Tyson: day to day (toe), Donovan Mitchell: day to day (ankle), Thomas Bryant: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Hawks: Jock Landale: out (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 Atlanta Hawks (45-34, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (50-29, fourth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-702787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116362076139234497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702787","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=702787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702787\/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=702787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}