Chicago Bulls (24-25, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (26-24, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Miami; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Heat -5.5; over\/under is 232.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Chicago faces Miami in Eastern Conference action Sunday.<\/p>\n The Heat have gone 13-14 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami is third in the league with 54.3 points in the paint led by Jaime Jaquez Jr. averaging 10.5.<\/p>\n The Bulls are 16-17 in conference play. Chicago ranks third in the NBA with 29.9 assists per game led by Tre Jones averaging 5.8.<\/p>\n The Heat are shooting 46.3% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point lower than the 47.3% the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls average 14.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 more makes per game than the Heat give up.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the fourth time this season. The Bulls defeated the Heat 125-118 in their last matchup on Feb. 1. Ayo Dosunmu led the Bulls with 29 points, and Pelle Larsson led the Heat with 22 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bam Adebayo is scoring 18.1 points per game with 9.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 17.8 points and 2.9 rebounds while shooting 42.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Dosunmu is scoring 15.1 points per game and averaging 2.9 rebounds for the Bulls. Coby White is averaging 3.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 5-5, averaging 120.4 points, 49.8 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 8.9 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Bulls: 6-4, averaging 119.9 points, 43.9 rebounds, 32.2 assists, 6.8 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 49.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.2 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Heat: Tyler Herro: day to day (toe), Norman Powell: day to day (personal), Davion Mitchell: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n Bulls: Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Nikola Vucevic: day to day (rest), Zach Collins: out (toe), Tre Jones: day to day (hamstring), Coby White: day to day (injury management), Josh Giddey: day to day (hamstring), Jalen Smith: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n 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 (24-25, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (26-24, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[77811,1297,2889,7,920,919,329,3824,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-574846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-77811","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-bulls","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-bulls","15":"tag-chicagobulls","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-basketball","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115994733047853771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574846","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=574846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574846\/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=574846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}