National Basketball Association Grizzlies vs. Spurs Picks & Predictions for November 21

They come into tonight’s match-up with the Denver Nuggets at 8-2 and only trailing the undefeated Warriors in the West. Denver appears to be a franchise on the rise, and will use their youth and speed to push the Spurs to the limit tonight.

The Spurs were without Manu Ginobili, who will miss the next two games with bilateral hip tightness.

“If you can get half that production from [Jokic] nightly, and get Will Barton to show up – and Gallo – you’ve got a pretty formidable team”, he said. It will be interesting to see how Tony Parker is able to keep up with him, coming off of a terrific 18 point performance on Saturday in which he looked as healthy as I’ve seen him look in a while.

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Antonio’s last 5 games.

West said he felt pretty comfortable in his first start with the Spurs. “I go to sleep dreaming about playing like the Spurs”, he said. Parker took it to the basket down the lane, and down the baseline with flip shots and reverses.

San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (9), of France, chases the ball…

PHOENIX AT DENVER 7 p.m. Friday, ALT; 950 AMSpotlight on Brandon Knight: Among many lamentable things to come out of the Nuggets’ loss at Phoenix almost a week ago, their defense against potent scoring guard Brandon Knight wasn’t one of them. Aldridge leads the team with five, Duncan has three and Leonard two…. Second half, I thought we played with a lot more force. Sacramento led by as many as 16 points in the final period.

San Antonio wasn’t at full strength, either.

The Silver and Black went on to beat the Grizzlies 92-82, but coach Gregg Popovich was still steaming after the game about his team’s six turnovers in a five-minute lapse in the third quarter. “… I thought we played hard and I thought we competed like insane”. When you are a part of that, you don’t want to be in there. “It’s tough. So, yeah, he was not very happy”. This season, the San Antonio Spurs added National Basketball Association All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge.

Gary Harris added 15 points and J.J. Hickson scored 10 for the Nuggets. “The guys did a much better job”. “We’re so excited about his progress and his potential because we think in Emmanuel (Mudiay) and Nikola we have two great young players”. This is only the fourth road game of the season for the Suns, who are 1-2 away from Talking Stick Resort Arena. Kawhi [Leonard] hit a big shot, Kyle Anderson hit some big shots and Tim Duncan hit some big shots down the stretch. Of course it’s good to be 10-3, but we didn’t have a super tough schedule, but it’s going to get tougher soon.

The San Antonio Spurs are among the worst offensive rebounding teams (ranked 26th), while the Phoenix Suns are one of the NBA’s top defensive rebounding teams (ranked fourth). Despite having a losing record against the Western Conference, Phoenix is successful ATS in those games with a record of 3-2.