Chicago Bulls (29-47, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks (49-28, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New York will aim for its 50th win this season when the Knicks host the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n
The Knicks have gone 31-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York is 20-22 against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 17-30 in Eastern Conference play. Chicago ranks ninth in the league with 45.1 rebounds per game led by Matas Buzelis averaging 5.8.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are shooting 47.6% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 47.8% the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 more makes per game than the Knicks allow.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Knicks won 105-99 in the last matchup on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 20.1 points and 11.9 rebounds for the Knicks. Jalen Brunson is averaging 20.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Buzelis is averaging 16.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Bulls. Collin Sexton is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 7-3, averaging 113.3 points, 44.2 rebounds, 26.7 assists, 7.5 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bulls: 2-8, averaging 120.5 points, 45.2 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 7.4 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 129.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Knicks: Jalen Brunson: day to day (ankle), Mitchell Robinson: day to day (ankle), Miles McBride: day to day (pelvis).<\/p>\n
Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Jalen Smith: out for season (calf), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Nick Richards: day to day (elbow), Zach Collins: out for season (toe), Josh Giddey: day to day (hamstring).<\/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":"By The Associated Press Chicago Bulls (29-47, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York Knicks (49-28, third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-693989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335525817319567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693989","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=693989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}