{"id":7396,"date":"2023-01-14T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/thunder-vs-nets-nba-game-preview-jan-15-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-14T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:03:38","slug":"thunder-vs-nets-nba-game-preview-jan-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/thunder-vs-nets-nba-game-preview-jan-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder vs. Nets &#8211; NBA Game Preview &#8211; Jan. 15, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Oklahoma City Thunder (20-23, 11th in Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (27-14, 2nd in Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">New York; Sunday 6pm EST<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Bottom line: When Brooklyn and Oklahoma City go head-to-head, the pairing of NBA best scorers Kevin Durant and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will go head-to-head. Durant ranks sixth in the NBA with his 29.7 points per game average, while Gilgeous ranks him fourth in the league with his 30.7 points per game average.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Nets are 13 wins and 6 losses at home. Brooklyn is Eastern he ranks ninth in his conference, led by Durant averaging 6.3 he has 32.8 his rebounds per game defensively.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Thunder is 7 to 14 years old on the way. Oklahoma City has a 9-9 record in 10-plus games.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Top performer: Nicholas Claxton is averaging 11.8 points, 8.3 rebounds and 2.6 blocks for the Nets. Kyrie Irving has his 3-pointers average 3.0 successful over the last 10 games in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Josh Guiddy is averaging 15.7 points, 8 rebounds and 5.6 assists for the Thunder. Isaiah His Joe has averaged 1.9 of his 3-pointers in the last 10 games in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Last 10 games: Nets: 8-2, 117.6 points, 39.6 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 8.1 steals, 7.2 blocks, 53.0% field goal percentage. Opponents score an average of 107.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Thunder: 6-4, averaging 121.9 points, 43.1 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 9.0 steals, 5.2 blocks, 48.4% shooting from the field. Opponents are scoring an average of 114.8 points.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Injured: Nets: Kevin Durant: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Thunder: Chet Holmgren: Missed (legs), Usman Dien: Missed (wrist), Alexei Poksevski: Missed (legs), Isaiah Joe: Daily Life (illness), Jeremiah Robinson-Ear: Missed ( ankle).<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Associated Press produced this article using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiMGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZXNwbi5jb20vbmJhL3ByZXZpZXc_Z2FtZUlkPTQwMTQ2ODgwNtIBAA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Oklahoma City Thunder (20-23, 11th in Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (27-14, 2nd in Eastern Conference) New York; Sunday 6pm EST Bottom line: When<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/401468806.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}