Chicago Bulls (9-10, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (12-8, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Orlando, Florida; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Chicago enters the matchup with Orlando as losers of three games in a row.<\/p>\n
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The Magic are 9-7 in conference matchups. Orlando is fourth in the NBA with 54.2 points in the paint led by Franz Wagner averaging 11.5.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 6-7 in conference play. Chicago ranks seventh in the NBA averaging 14.4 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 37.3% from downtown. Nikola Vucevic leads the team averaging 2.0 makes while shooting 39.6% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Magic average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 fewer makes per game than the Bulls give up (13.1). The Bulls average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 more made shots on average than the 11.7 per game the Magic allow.<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Bulls defeated the Magic 110-98 in their last matchup on Oct. 25. Josh Giddey led the Bulls with 21 points, and Paolo Banchero led the Magic with 24 points.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Wagner is averaging 22.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Magic. Desmond Bane is averaging 37.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Matas Buzelis is shooting 45.5% and averaging 13.2 points for the Bulls. Kevin Huerter is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 8-2, averaging 122.5 points, 44.8 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bulls: 3-7, averaging 120.4 points, 45.5 rebounds, 29.1 assists, 7.0 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.5 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Magic: Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Paolo Banchero: day to day (groin).<\/p>\n
Bulls: Jalen Smith: day to day (knee), Dalen Terry: day to day (calf), Coby White: day to day (calf), Zach Collins: day to day (wrist), Noa Essengue: day to day (shoulder), Isaac Okoro: day to day (lumbar).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls (9-10, 10th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (12-8, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,3127,42766,63668,8612,1518,723,101648,5386,1818,20510,67199,17461,42765,40045,192377,11435,15402,6063,3121,65357,8730,20724,31391],"class_list":{"0":"post-414668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-coby-white","11":"tag-dalen-terry","12":"tag-desmond-bane","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-franz-wagner","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-illinois","18":"tag-isaac-okoro","19":"tag-jalen-smith","20":"tag-josh-giddey","21":"tag-kevin-huerter","22":"tag-matas-buzelis","23":"tag-moritz-wagner","24":"tag-nikola-vucevic","25":"tag-noa-essengue","26":"tag-orlando","27":"tag-orlando-magic","28":"tag-paolo-banchero","29":"tag-points-per-game","30":"tag-the-magic","31":"tag-zach-collins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115637662943325305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}