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New York Knicks<\/a> (36-21, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls<\/a> (24-33, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Knicks -10.5; over\/under is 232.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago looks to end its eight-game skid when the Bulls take on New York.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 16-24 in conference matchups. Chicago is sixth in the league with 52.0 points in the paint led by Josh Giddey<\/a> averaging 8.6.<\/p>\n

The Knicks have gone 24-14 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.7 points per game and is shooting 47.2%.<\/p>\n

The Bulls’ 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.8 more made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Knicks allow. The Knicks average 14.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than the Bulls give up.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Knicks won the last matchup 128-116 on Nov. 3. Jalen Brunson<\/a> scored 31 points to help lead the Knicks to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Anfernee Simons<\/a> is scoring 14.3 points per game and averaging 2.5 rebounds for the Bulls. Matas Buzelis<\/a> is averaging 15.2 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mikal Bridges<\/a> is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Knicks. Brunson is averaging 24.5 points and 4.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 1-9, averaging 110.2 points, 42.3 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 8.3 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Knicks: 7-3, averaging 118.7 points, 43.8 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 7.4 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jaden Ivey: out (knee), Zach Collins<\/a>: out for season (toe).<\/p>\n

Knicks: Miles McBride: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (36-21, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (24-33, 12th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[4329,7,920,919,329,3824,78812,288,965,973,1260,1407,6,191,4104],"class_list":{"0":"post-617431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-anfernee-simons","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bulls","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-chicagobulls","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jalen-brunson","16":"tag-josh-giddey","17":"tag-matas-buzelis","18":"tag-mikal-bridges","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-new-york-knicks","22":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116113448968059873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617431","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=617431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617431\/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=617431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}