Chicago Bulls (7-6, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (6-7, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Bulls -1.5; over\/under is 242.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Deni Avdija and the Portland Trail Blazers take on Josh Giddey and the Chicago Bulls in non-conference play.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers have gone 3-2 at home. Portland has a 2-2 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n The Bulls have gone 2-5 away from home. Chicago is third in the Eastern Conference with 18.6 fast break points per game led by Giddey averaging 4.8.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers average 13.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 more made shots on average than the 12.7 per game the Bulls allow. The Bulls average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.6 more made shots on average than the 11.8 per game the Trail Blazers give up.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Clingan is scoring 8.8 points per game and averaging 9.0 rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Shaedon Sharpe is averaging 36.0 points and 4.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Giddey is averaging 21.8 points, 10.3 rebounds and 9.4 assists for the Bulls. Jevon Carter is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 5-5, averaging 122.0 points, 44.9 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Bulls: 4-6, averaging 122.9 points, 47.7 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 8.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.3 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Jerami Grant: day to day (illness), Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Jrue Holiday: day to day (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n Bulls: Zach Collins: out (wrist), Tre Jones: day to day (ankle), Jalen Smith: day to day (pectoral).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n 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 (7-6, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (6-7, ninth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[169176,4225,24017,64,63,726,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-294681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-169176","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-basketball","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}