{"id":8936,"date":"2023-01-19T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/nuggets-are-on-eight-straight-wins-against-pacers\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T07:10:16","slug":"nuggets-are-on-eight-straight-wins-against-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/nuggets-are-on-eight-straight-wins-against-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets are on eight straight wins against Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"30bd5e18-e939-5dc2-a304-0312a735e499\" overlaytype=\"article\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\" data-v-dccbf392=\"\">  <!----> <\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Indiana Pacers (23-23, 9th in Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (32-13, 1st in Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Denver; Friday, 9:00 PM ET<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Bottom line: Denver is looking to keep their eighth win streak as the Nuggets take on Indiana.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">The Nuggets are 21-3 on their home court. Denver ranked eighth in the Western Conference with 32.9 defensive rebounds per game, while Nikola Jokic averaged 8.7.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">The Pacers are 8-14 in road games. Indiana has a record of 5-6 in games decided by 3 points or less.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">The two teams will meet for the second time this season. The Nuggets beat the Pacers 122-119 in his final matchup on November 10. Jokic led the Nuggets with his 24 points and Benedict his Maturin led the Pacers with his 30 points.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Top performer: Jokic is averaging 24.4 points, 10.7 rebounds and 9.6 assists for the Nuggets. Jamal Murray is averaging 18.1 points and 5.3 assists over his last 10 games for Denver.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Myles Turner is averaging 17.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.4 blocks for the Pacers. Buddy Hield has averaged 4.1 of his 3-pointers in his last 10 games in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Last 10 games: Nuggets: 9-1, 120.3 points, 43.9 rebounds, 28.8 assists, 7.5 steals, 4.6 blocks, 51.5% shooting percentage. Opponents score an average of 109.0 points per game.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Pacers: 4-6, averaging 116.4 points, 43.9 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 8.2 steals, 6.4 blocks, 45.2% field goal percentage. Opponents are scoring an average of 120.3 points.<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Injuries: Nuggets: Peyton Watson: out (adductor), Jeff Green: out (hand), Colin Gillespie: out (leg).<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">Pacers: Daniel Theis: out (knee), Tyrese Halliburton: out (elbow\/knee), Kendall Brown: out (leg).<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p displaynav=\"true\" class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\">The Associated Press produced this article using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p> <!----> <\/p>\n<hr class=\"story-section-divider\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\"\/>\n<hr class=\"story-section-divider\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\"\/> <!----> <\/p>\n<hr class=\"story-section-divider\" data-v-1f556a34=\"\" data-v-dccbf392=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZveHNwb3J0cy5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvbmJhL251Z2dldHMtcGxheS10aGUtcGFjZXJzLW9uLThnYW1lLXdpbi1zdHJlYWvSAQA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Indiana Pacers (23-23, 9th in Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (32-13, 1st in Western Conference) Denver; Friday, 9:00 PM ET Bottom line: Denver is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2466,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SiteShareImage.vresize.1200.630.high_.0.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936","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=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}