Utah Jazz (5-8, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (10-4, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Los Angeles; Tuesday, 10:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Utah faces the Los Angeles Lakers after Lauri Markkanen scored 47 points in the Jazz’s 150-147 overtime victory over the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n
The Lakers are 7-3 in conference games. Los Angeles is 2-0 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are 2-5 in conference games. Utah ranks second in the NBA with 48.3 rebounds per game. Jusuf Nurkic paces the Jazz with 9.5.<\/p>\n
The Lakers make 50.4% of their shots from the field this season, which is 3.1 percentage points higher than the Jazz have allowed to their opponents (47.3%). The Jazz average 13.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 fewer makes per game than the Lakers give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Luka Doncic is averaging 34.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 8.9 assists and 1.7 steals for the Lakers. Austin Reaves is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nurkic is scoring 7.2 points per game and averaging 9.5 rebounds for the Jazz. Markkanen is averaging 47.0 points and 7.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 8-2, averaging 115.6 points, 41.0 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 10.2 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Jazz: 3-7, averaging 117.5 points, 46.8 rebounds, 29.1 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lakers: LeBron James: out (sciatica), Rui Hachimura: day to day (calf), Marcus Smart: day to day (illness), Gabe Vincent: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Jazz: Georges Niang: out (foot), Taylor Hendricks: day to day (hamstring), Kyle Anderson: day to day (back), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder).<\/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":"Utah Jazz (5-8, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (10-4, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[183862,347,1582,276,2961,224,5337,6326,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-384940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-183862","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115564436823767625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384940","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=384940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384940\/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=384940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}