Cleveland Cavaliers (15-12, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (10-15, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Chicago aims to break its four-game home slide with a win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n
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The Bulls have gone 7-10 against Eastern Conference teams. Chicago is seventh in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.2 points while shooting 46.8% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers have gone 12-9 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland is fifth in the league averaging 15.0 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 33.9% from deep. Donovan Mitchell leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 38.1% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Bulls’ 13.8 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.7 more made shots on average than the 13.1 per game the Cavaliers give up. The Cavaliers average 15.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.4 more made shots on average than the 13.6 per game the Bulls allow.<\/p>\n
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The teams square off for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Nov. 9 the Cavaliers won 128-122 led by 29 points from De’Andre Hunter, while Isaac Okoro scored 19 points for the Bulls.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Giddey is averaging 20.1 points, 9.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists for the Bulls. Coby White is averaging 20.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mitchell is averaging 30.7 points and 5.5 assists for the Cavaliers. Darius Garland is averaging 26 points and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 2-8, averaging 112.0 points, 43.2 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 4-6, averaging 116.7 points, 46.5 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 9.1 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bulls: Ayo Dosunmu: day to day (thumb), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n
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Cavaliers: Sam Merrill: day to day (hand), Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Larry Nance Jr.: out (calf).<\/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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (15-12, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (10-15, 11th in the Eastern Conference) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[4102,7,306,329,305,193,3846,963,791,864,1409,576,3891,965,2988,872,6,2282,4485,1166],"class_list":{"0":"post-476475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-ayo-dosunmu","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cavaliers","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","15":"tag-coby-white","16":"tag-darius-garland","17":"tag-donovan-mitchell","18":"tag-eastern-conference","19":"tag-evan-mobley","20":"tag-isaac-okoro","21":"tag-josh-giddey","22":"tag-larry-nance-jr","23":"tag-max-strus","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-noa-essengue","26":"tag-points-per-game","27":"tag-sam-merrill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115728093303304260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}