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Chicago Bulls<\/a> (24-26, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> (18-29, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Milwaukee; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Milwaukee heads into the matchup against Chicago after losing five in a row.<\/p>\n

The Bucks are 14-17 in Eastern Conference games. Milwaukee averages 13.8 turnovers per game and is 8-8 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 3-8 against Central Division teams. Chicago ranks fifth in the league scoring 17.9 fast break points per game. Ayo Dosunmu<\/a> leads the Bulls averaging 3.6.<\/p>\n

The Bucks’ 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.7 more made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Bulls allow. The Bulls average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 more makes per game than the Bucks give up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last matchup on Dec. 28 the Bucks won 112-103 led by 29 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, while Coby White<\/a> scored 16 points for the Bulls.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan Rollins<\/a> is scoring 16.5 points per game with 4.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists for the Bucks. Bobby Portis<\/a> is averaging 14.1 points and 7.6 rebounds while shooting 46.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nikola Vucevic<\/a> is averaging 16.9 points, nine rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Bulls. White is averaging 3.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Bucks: 2-8, averaging 103.0 points, 41.5 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 5-5, averaging 116.2 points, 44.3 rebounds, 30.4 assists, 6.3 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Bucks: Giannis Antetokounmpo: out (calf), Gary Harris<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Kevin Porter Jr.: out (oblique), Taurean Prince<\/a>: out (neck).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Zach Collins<\/a>: out (toe), Kevin Huerter<\/a>: out (back), Tre Jones: out (hamstring), Josh Giddey<\/a>: out (hamstring), Jalen Smith: out (calf).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls (24-26, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (18-29, 12th in the Eastern Conference) Milwaukee;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-576828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-milwaukeebucks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576828","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=576828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}