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Denver Nuggets<\/a> (53-28, third in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (62-19, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Sunday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio hosts the Denver Nuggets after Victor Wembanyama<\/a> scored 40 points in the San Antonio Spurs’ 139-120 victory against the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 36-15 against Western Conference opponents. San Antonio is ninth in the NBA<\/a> with 28.1 assists per game. Stephon Castle<\/a> leads the Spurs averaging 7.4.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 35-16 in Western Conference play. Denver is sixth in the Western Conference with 15.3 fast break points per game led by Christian Braun<\/a> averaging 3.8.<\/p>\n

The Spurs’ 13.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are the same per game average that the Nuggets allow. The Nuggets score 10.7 more points per game (122.0) than the Spurs give up (111.3).<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. In the last matchup on April 4 the Nuggets won 136-134 in overtime led by 40 points from Nikola Jokic<\/a>, while Wembanyama scored 34 points for the Spurs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is averaging 18.5 points and 6.2 assists for the Spurs. Wembanyama is averaging 24.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bruce Brown<\/a> is scoring 7.8 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/a> is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 9-1, averaging 126.0 points, 50.3 rebounds, 31.7 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nuggets: 10-0, averaging 131.2 points, 47.0 rebounds, 33.3 assists, 6.5 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 51.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Stephon Castle: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Nuggets: Christian Braun: out (ankle), Jamal Murray<\/a>: out (shoulder), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson<\/a>: out (hamstring), Nikola Jokic: out (wrist), Cameron Johnson<\/a>: out (injury management), Spencer Jones: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets (53-28, third in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-19, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,6850,2726,561,1314,301,187,3943,78812,762,1407,6,253,302,1146,474,930,911,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-708022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bruce-brown","10":"tag-cameron-johnson","11":"tag-christian-braun","12":"tag-deaaron-fox","13":"tag-denver","14":"tag-denver-nuggets","15":"tag-denvernuggets","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-jamal-murray","18":"tag-national-basketball-association","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nikola-jokic","21":"tag-nuggets","22":"tag-peyton-watson","23":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","24":"tag-stephon-castle","25":"tag-tim-hardaway-jr","26":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116385070657612136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708022","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=708022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708022\/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=708022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}