Chicago Bulls (17-19, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (27-9, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Detroit and Chicago face off on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Pistons have gone 19-6 against Eastern Conference teams. Detroit averages 118.8 points while outscoring opponents by 6.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 3-6 against opponents from the Central Division. Chicago ranks sixth in the league with 45.6 rebounds per game led by Nikola Vucevic averaging 9.1.<\/p>\n
The Pistons average 11.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.8 fewer makes per game than the Bulls allow (14.0). The Bulls average 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 more made shots on average than the 12.9 per game the Pistons allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Pistons won the last meeting 124-113 on Nov. 13. Paul Reed scored 28 points to help lead the Pistons to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ausar Thompson is averaging 11.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham is averaging 29.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Vucevic is scoring 16.4 points per game and averaging 9.1 rebounds for the Bulls. Ayo Dosunmu is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 6-4, averaging 117.5 points, 46.5 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 11.3 steals and 7.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bulls: 6-4, averaging 118.2 points, 46.6 rebounds, 31.5 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: Jalen Duren: out (ankle), Tobias Harris: out (hip), Caris LeVert: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Bulls: Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jalen Smith: out (concussion protocol), Josh Giddey: out (hamstring), Zach Collins: out (toe), Trentyn Flowers: out (knee).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls (17-19, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (27-9, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3773],"tags":[72121,1297,2889,7,296,188,3860,6,446,297,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-520590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-72121","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-pistons","14":"tag-detroitpistons","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-pistons","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115849274652041715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520590","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=520590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}