Los Angeles Lakers (50-28, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (37-42, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Francisco; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Brandin Podziemski and the Golden State Warriors host Deandre Ayton and the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are 7-6 in division matchups. Golden State has a 20-22 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Lakers are 8-7 against the rest of the division. Los Angeles has an 8-3 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 2.4 percentage points lower than the 48.5% the Lakers allow to opponents. The Lakers average 116.3 points per game, 1.3 more than the 115.0 the Warriors allow to opponents.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Lakers won the last matchup 129-101 on March 1. Luka Doncic scored 26 points to help lead the Lakers to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Draymond Green is scoring 8.5 points per game and averaging 5.5 rebounds for the Warriors. Podziemski is averaging 18.4 points and 5.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ayton is averaging 12.4 points and 8.1 rebounds for the Lakers. Luke Kennard is averaging 1.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 4-6, averaging 113.1 points, 39.8 rebounds, 28.2 assists, 9.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lakers: 6-3, averaging 116.0 points, 42.6 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Warriors: Quinten Post: day to day (foot), Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Al Horford: out (calf), Moses Moody: out for season (knee), Will Richard: out (back), Gui Santos: out (pelvis), LJ Cryer: out (illness).<\/p>\n
Lakers: Austin Reaves: out (rib), LeBron James: out (foot), Marcus Smart: out (ankle), Luka Doncic: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers (50-28, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (37-42, 10th in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[88295,1297,7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-705040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-88295","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-lakers","13":"tag-lakers","14":"tag-lalakers","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleslakers","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-basketball","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116368697168063488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705040","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=705040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}