Milwaukee Bucks (26-32, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (24-36, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Chicago hosts Milwaukee looking to break its eight-game home skid.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 3-10 against division opponents. Chicago is 9-5 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Bucks are 8-4 against the rest of their division. Milwaukee is 13-23 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are shooting 46.9% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points higher than the 46.6% the Bucks allow to opponents. The Bulls average 112.1 points per game, 8.4 fewer points than the 120.5 the Bulls allow to opponents.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Bucks won the last meeting 131-115 on Feb. 4, with Kyle Kuzma scoring 31 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Matas Buzelis is averaging 15.3 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Bulls. Isaac Okoro is averaging 10.4 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ryan Rollins is averaging 17.1 points, 5.4 assists and 1.5 steals for the Bucks. Kevin Porter Jr. is averaging 20.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 0-10, averaging 108.3 points, 40.5 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 9.0 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bucks: 7-3, averaging 114.8 points, 42.3 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jaden Ivey: out (knee), Patrick Williams: day to day (quadriceps), Zach Collins: out for season (toe), Jalen Smith: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
Bucks: Giannis Antetokounmpo: day to day (calf), Taurean Prince: out (neck).<\/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":"Milwaukee Bucks (26-32, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (24-36, 12th in the Eastern Conference) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[82670,1297,2889,7,103,102,121,3871,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-630138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-82670","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-bucks","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-milwaukeebucks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-basketball","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116147910396159067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630138","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=630138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630138\/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=630138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}