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Chicago Bulls<\/a> (29-49, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards<\/a> (17-61, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Washington; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago is looking to break its seven-game losing streak with a victory against Washington.<\/p>\n

The Wizards have gone 11-37 against Eastern Conference teams. Washington has a 4-40 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 17-31 in conference games. Chicago is fourth in the Eastern Conference scoring 52.4 points per game in the paint led by Tre Jones<\/a> averaging 8.7.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are shooting 46.3% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points lower than the 47.9% the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls are shooting 46.9% from the field, 1.8% lower than the 48.7% the Wizards’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Bulls won the last matchup 121-120 on Nov. 23, with Josh Giddey<\/a> scoring 18 points in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bub Carrington<\/a> is averaging 10.3 points and 4.6 assists for the Wizards. Jaden Hardy<\/a> is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matas Buzelis<\/a> is averaging 16.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Bulls. Collin Sexton<\/a> is averaging 18.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 1-9, averaging 114.9 points, 38.0 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 8.3 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 130.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 1-9, averaging 117.1 points, 43.9 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 7.4 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 132.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wizards: Anthony Davis<\/a>: out (finger), Tristan Vukcevic: day to day (knee), Justin Champagnie<\/a>: day to day (knee), Cam Whitmore<\/a>: out for season (shoulder), Tre Johnson: day to day (foot), Alex Sarr<\/a>: day to day (toe), Kyshawn George: out for season (elbow), D’Angelo Russell: out (not injury related), Trae Young: out (quad), Bilal Coulibaly: day to day (heel).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Anfernee Simons: out (wrist), Jalen Smith: out for season (calf), Matas Buzelis: day to day (illness), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Josh Giddey: day to day (hamstring), Nick Richards: day to day (elbow), Zach Collins<\/a>: out for season (toe).<\/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":"Chicago Bulls (29-49, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (17-61, 15th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[979,495,7,2644,4836,329,1585,78812,7138,965,10683,973,1407,6,6277,682,468,3892,683,4104],"class_list":{"0":"post-701031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-anthony-davis","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bub-carrington","12":"tag-cam-whitmore","13":"tag-chicago-bulls","14":"tag-collin-sexton","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-jaden-hardy","17":"tag-josh-giddey","18":"tag-justin-champagnie","19":"tag-matas-buzelis","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-tre-jones","23":"tag-washington","24":"tag-washington-wizards","25":"tag-washingtonwizards","26":"tag-wizards","27":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356613712243547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701031","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=701031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}