{"id":708039,"date":"2026-04-11T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:42:27","slug":"mavericks-take-on-the-bulls-on-3-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708039\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks take on the Bulls on 3-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls<\/a> (31-50, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (25-56, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Dallas; Sunday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas will try to end its three-game skid when the Mavericks take on Chicago.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have gone 15-25 in home games. Dallas is 12-20 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 13.9 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 13-27 on the road. Chicago has a 13-32 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks score 113.7 points per game, 7.5 fewer points than the 121.2 the Bulls allow. The Bulls average 14.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Mavericks allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Bulls won the last matchup 125-107 on Jan. 11, with Matas Buzelis<\/a> scoring 15 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cooper Flagg<\/a> is averaging 21.2 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Mavericks. Max Christie<\/a> is averaging 10.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Tre Jones<\/a> is averaging 14.2 points and 5.4 assists for the Bulls. Collin Sexton<\/a> is averaging 19.3 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 48.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 115.0 points, 41.9 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 8.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 2-8, averaging 117.1 points, 45.6 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mavericks: P.J. Washington<\/a>: out (elbow), Marvin Bagley III<\/a>: day to day (shoulder), Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Klay Thompson: out (illness), Daniel Gafford: out (rest), Caleb Martin: out (foot), Brandon Williams<\/a>: out (illness), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Naji Marshall: out (hip).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Anfernee Simons: out (wrist), Matas Buzelis: day to day (ankle), Isaac Okoro<\/a>: out (quad), Jalen Smith: out for season (calf), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Josh Giddey<\/a>: out (hamstring), Guerschon Yabusele: out (shoulder), Nick Richards: out (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 (31-50, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (25-56, 13th in the Western Conference) Dallas;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,10823,920,919,329,3824,1585,225,149,78812,3891,965,967,6338,973,7139,1407,6,9410,6277,4104],"class_list":{"0":"post-708039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-williams","10":"tag-bulls","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-chicagobulls","14":"tag-collin-sexton","15":"tag-cooper-flagg","16":"tag-dallas-mavericks","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-isaac-okoro","19":"tag-josh-giddey","20":"tag-kyrie-irving","21":"tag-marvin-bagley-iii","22":"tag-matas-buzelis","23":"tag-max-christie","24":"tag-national-basketball-association","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-p-j-washington","27":"tag-tre-jones","28":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116385188653930997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708039","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=708039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708039\/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=708039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}