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Chicago Bulls<\/a> (1-4, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics<\/a> (3-1, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Boston; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n LINE: Celtics -11.5; over\/under is 232.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Celtics take on the Chicago Bulls in an NBA<\/a> Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n Boston finished 56-26 overall and 36-16 in Eastern Conference action last season. The Celtics gave up 107.2 points per game while committing 19.0 fouls last season.<\/p>\n Chicago went 31-51 overall and 19-32 in Eastern Conference play during the 2025-26 season. The Bulls averaged 7.6 steals, 5.0 blocks and 14.6 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Celtics won 134-99 in the last matchup on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Celtics: Devin Carter<\/a>: out (illness).<\/p>\n Bulls: Tobe Awaka: day to day (ankle), Patrick Williams<\/a>: day to day (groin), Nic Claxton<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/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":"Associated Press Chicago Bulls (1-4, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (3-1, fourth in the Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,329,3208,78812,1407,6,2728,6140],"class_list":["post-870734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-celtics","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-devin-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-nic-claxton","tag-patrick-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117523666876038808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870734","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=870734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}