Los Angeles Clippers (3-3, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (3-5, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix faces Los Angeles in a matchup of Western Conference teams.<\/p>\n
Phoenix finished 36-46 overall, 9-7 in Pacific Division action and 24-17 at home a season ago. The Suns averaged 7.2 steals, 4.8 blocks and 13.2 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles finished 50-32 overall, 9-7 in Pacific Division games and 20-21 on the road a season ago. The Clippers averaged 112.9 points per game while shooting 48.2% from the field and 37.3% from behind the arc last season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Clippers won the last matchup 129-102 on Oct. 25, with James Harden scoring 30 points in the win.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Suns: Jalen Green: day to day (hamstring), Dillon Brooks: day to day (groin).<\/p>\n
Clippers: Kobe Sanders: day to day (knee), Jordan Miller: day to day (hamstring), Kawhi Leonard: day to day (injury management).<\/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 Clippers (3-3, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (3-5, 12th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[174244,5229,5643,347,1587,6326,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-357614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-174244","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115497570541645340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}