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The Brooklyn Nets (4-6, 4th Atlantic) have won two straight leading up to their Monday visit to Texas to play the Dallas Mavericks (5-2, 2nd Southwest). Brooklyn defeated the Charlotte Hornets 98-94 on Saturday despite off the court distractions as Brooklyn suspended Kyrie Irving for an unknown period, while Ben Simmons and TJ Warren remain sidelined with injuries. Dallas has one each of its last 3 after defeating the Toronto Raptors 111-110 on Friday night. Davis Bertans and Frank Ntilikina are the only two players sidelined with injuries for Dallas.
The Brooklyn Nets are scoring an average of 112.2 points per game which is 18th in the NBA. Part of the reason Brooklyn is struggling to score is Kyrie Irving (26.9 ppg) is sidelined while TJ Warren has yet to play for the Nets this season and Ben Simmons has inflammation on his left knee. The Nets are fifth in field goal shooting percentage at 47.9% and 17th in 3-point shooting percentage at 35.2%. Kevin Durant is averaging a team-best 32.0 points per game, but with Irving sidelined the next highest scorer is Nic Claxton with an average of 12.6 points per game. Irving is the leader in assists with an average of 5.1 per game and in his absence Kevin Durant is the leader at 5.0 dishes per contest.
Brooklyn's defense is slightly above-average, allowing 113.0 points per game which is 13th. The Nets are holding opponents to an average of 45.1% shooting overall which is seventh best in the NBA and 38.6% shooting from behind the three-point line which is 27th. Brooklyn is averaging 39.9 rebounds per game of which 8.2 are off the offensive glass and 31.7 are off the defensive class. Nic Claxton is averaging a team-best 8.8 boards per game. Brooklyn's leader in blocked shots is Claxton with an average of 2.4 swats per game.
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