{"id":496151,"date":"2026-01-06T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:18:26","slug":"detroit-hosts-conference-foe-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/496151\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit hosts conference foe Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls<\/a> (17-19, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> (27-9, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Detroit and Chicago face off on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have gone 19-6 against Eastern Conference teams. Detroit averages 118.8 points while outscoring opponents by 6.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 3-6 against opponents from the Central Division. Chicago ranks sixth in the league with 45.6 rebounds per game led by Nikola Vucevic<\/a> averaging 9.1.<\/p>\n

The Pistons average 11.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.8 fewer makes per game than the Bulls allow (14.0). The Bulls average 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 more made shots on average than the 12.9 per game the Pistons allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Pistons won the last meeting 124-113 on Nov. 13. Paul Reed<\/a> scored 28 points to help lead the Pistons to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ausar Thompson<\/a> is averaging 11.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham<\/a> is averaging 29.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Vucevic is scoring 16.4 points per game and averaging 9.1 rebounds for the Bulls. Ayo Dosunmu<\/a> is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 6-4, averaging 117.5 points, 46.5 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 11.3 steals and 7.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 6-4, averaging 118.2 points, 46.6 rebounds, 31.5 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: Jalen Duren<\/a>: out (ankle), Tobias Harris<\/a>: out (hip), Caris LeVert<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jalen Smith: out (concussion protocol), Josh Giddey<\/a>: out (hamstring), Zach Collins<\/a>: out (toe), Trentyn Flowers<\/a>: out (knee).<\/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 (17-19, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (27-9, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-496151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115847410942435942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496151","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=496151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}