Chicago Bulls (18-20, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (22-14, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Houston; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Houston hosts Chicago aiming to extend its six-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
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The Rockets have gone 11-2 in home games. Houston is 8-2 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 14.7 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 7-11 on the road. Chicago is sixth in the NBA scoring 17.9 fast break points per game. Coby White leads the Bulls averaging 3.5.<\/p>\n
The Rockets score 117.9 points per game, 2.9 fewer points than the 120.8 the Bulls give up. The Bulls are shooting 47.3% from the field, 1.0% higher than the 46.3% the Rockets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Amen Thompson is shooting 51.8% and averaging 18.7 points for the Rockets. Kevin Durant is averaging 27.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Matas Buzelis is averaging 14.9 points and 5.3 rebounds for the Bulls. Nikola Vucevic is averaging 17.9 points and 9.7 rebounds while shooting 54.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 5-5, averaging 109.9 points, 49.5 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 7.7 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Bulls: 5-5, averaging 111.2 points, 47.5 rebounds, 29.8 assists, 5.2 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Tari Eason: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Bulls: Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Josh Giddey: out (hamstring), Zach Collins: day to day (toe).<\/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":"Chicago Bulls (18-20, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (22-14, seventh in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[883,7,329,963,1409,866,292,194,4066,965,938,973,6,3853,2282,4485,211,873,574,4104],"class_list":{"0":"post-531339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-amen-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-chicago-bulls","11":"tag-coby-white","12":"tag-eastern-conference","13":"tag-fred-vanvleet","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-rockets","16":"tag-houstonrockets","17":"tag-josh-giddey","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-matas-buzelis","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nikola-vucevic","22":"tag-noa-essengue","23":"tag-points-per-game","24":"tag-rockets","25":"tag-tari-eason","26":"tag-western-conference","27":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115881239151612014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531339","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=531339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531339\/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=531339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}