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Chicago Bulls<\/a> (25-37, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns<\/a> (34-26, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago will attempt to stop its five-game road losing streak when the Bulls visit Phoenix.<\/p>\n

The Suns have gone 20-12 at home. Phoenix is sixth in the league allowing just 111.4 points per game while holding opponents to 46.9% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 9-19 on the road. Chicago is second in the Eastern Conference with 34.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Josh Giddey<\/a> averaging 7.0.<\/p>\n

The Suns are shooting 45.3% from the field this season, 2.2 percentage points lower than the 47.5% the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls average 115.7 points per game, 4.3 more than the 111.4 the Suns give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mark Williams<\/a> is averaging 11.6 points and 8.1 rebounds for the Suns. Collin Gillespie<\/a> is averaging 13.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matas Buzelis<\/a> is averaging 15.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks for the Bulls. Collin Sexton<\/a> is averaging 13.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 4-6, averaging 103.7 points, 44.1 rebounds, 22.6 assists, 8.8 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 42.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 1-9, averaging 108.9 points, 42.7 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 8.9 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Suns: Jordan Goodwin<\/a>: out (calf), Dillon Brooks: out (hand).<\/p>\n

Bulls: Anfernee Simons: day to day (wrist), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jaden Ivey: out (knee), Patrick Williams<\/a>: day to day (quadriceps), Zach Collins<\/a>: out for season (toe), Jalen Smith: day to day (calf).<\/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 (25-37, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (34-26, seventh in the Western Conference) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,3127,21595,94161,255655,58608,17461,15946,40045,37352,55053,1589,1721,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,31391],"class_list":["post-631302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-collin-sexton","tag-event_preview","tag-jordan-goodwin","tag-josh-giddey","tag-mark-williams","tag-matas-buzelis","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-patrick-williams","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zach-collins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116170249123060905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631302","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=631302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631302\/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=631302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}