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Chicago Bulls<\/a> (30-49, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards<\/a> (17-62, 15th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: Washington plays Chicago looking to break its 10-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are 11-38 in conference games. Washington is 2-2 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 18-31 in Eastern Conference play. Chicago has a 12-31 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are shooting 46.3% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points lower than the 47.8% the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.8 more makes per game than the Wizards give up.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last matchup on April 7 the Bulls won 129-98 led by 26 points from Rob Dillingham<\/a>, while Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> scored 19 points for the Wizards.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bub Carrington<\/a> is scoring 10.3 points per game with 3.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Wizards. Will Riley<\/a> is averaging 17.6 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 48.8% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Tre Jones<\/a> is shooting 55.3% and averaging 13.8 points for the Bulls. Collin Sexton<\/a> is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 1-9, averaging 115.2 points, 39.1 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 8.8 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 131.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 2-8, averaging 119.1 points, 45.5 rebounds, 27.1 assists, 7.5 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 128.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wizards: Anthony Davis<\/a>: out for season (finger), Tristan Vukcevic: day to day (knee), Jaden Hardy: day to day (back), 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 for season (quad).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Isaac Okoro<\/a>: day to day (quad), Jalen Smith: out for season (calf), Matas Buzelis<\/a>: day to day (illness), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Josh Giddey<\/a>: day to day (hamstring), Nick Richards: day to day (elbow), Zach Collins<\/a>: out for season (toe).<\/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 (30-49, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (17-62, 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":[979,495,7,1257,2644,4836,329,1585,78812,3891,965,973,1407,6,977,6277,682,468,3892,982,683,4104],"class_list":{"0":"post-705050","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-bilal-coulibaly","12":"tag-bub-carrington","13":"tag-cam-whitmore","14":"tag-chicago-bulls","15":"tag-collin-sexton","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-isaac-okoro","18":"tag-josh-giddey","19":"tag-matas-buzelis","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-rob-dillingham","23":"tag-tre-jones","24":"tag-washington","25":"tag-washington-wizards","26":"tag-washingtonwizards","27":"tag-will-riley","28":"tag-wizards","29":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705050","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=705050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705050\/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=705050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}