San Antonio Spurs (18-7, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (18-7, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Las Vegas; Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New York faces the San Antonio Spurs after Jalen Brunson scored 40 points in the New York Knicks’ 132-120 victory over the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n
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The Knicks have gone 13-1 at home. New York has a 1-1 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 9-5 on the road. San Antonio is fifth in the Western Conference with 45.1 rebounds per game led by Keldon Johnson averaging 6.5.<\/p>\n
The 121.0 points per game the Knicks average are 5.8 more points than the Spurs allow (115.2). The Spurs are shooting 48.3% from the field, 2.3% higher than the 46.0% the Knicks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Karl-Anthony Towns is shooting 47.4% and averaging 22.4 points for the Knicks. OG Anunoby is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Devin Vassell is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 3.8 rebounds for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 9-1, averaging 121.3 points, 45.3 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 7-3, averaging 120.3 points, 45.0 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 8.0 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.5 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Knicks: Landry Shamet: out (shoulder), Miles McBride: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Spurs: None listed.<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (18-7, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (18-7, second in the Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,202320,23226,1518,24114,24115,23224,40143,90607,405,3122,17380,3121,8730,7202,3138,7203,358,22721,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7184],"class_list":{"0":"post-448488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-de39aaron-fox","10":"tag-devin-vassell","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-jalen-brunson","13":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","14":"tag-keldon-johnson","15":"tag-landry-shamet","16":"tag-miles-mcbride","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-knicks","19":"tag-og-anunoby","20":"tag-orlando-magic","21":"tag-points-per-game","22":"tag-san-antonio","23":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","24":"tag-sanantonio","25":"tag-texas","26":"tag-the-spurs","27":"tag-tx","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115723257090095460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448488","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=448488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}