{"id":126686,"date":"2026-02-08T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126686\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:42:08","slug":"chicago-plays-brooklyn-looks-to-break-road-slide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126686\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago plays Brooklyn, looks to break road slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bulls<\/a> (24-29, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (14-37, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago hits the road against Brooklyn looking to break its three-game road skid.<\/p>\n

The Nets are 10-21 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn is 5-24 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 16-20 in Eastern Conference play. Chicago is sixth in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.0 points per game and is shooting 47.2%.<\/p>\n

The Nets average 107.3 points per game, 13.2 fewer points than the 120.5 the Bulls allow. The Bulls’ 47.2% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.2 percentage points lower than the Nets have given up to their opponents (49.4%).<\/p>\n

The two teams play for the fourth time this season. The Bulls defeated the Nets 124-102 in their last meeting on Jan. 19. Matas Buzelis<\/a> led the Bulls with 17 points, and Nolan Traore<\/a> led the Nets with 16 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 25 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Nets. Egor Demin<\/a> is averaging 10.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Buzelis is averaging 15.1 points and 5.4 rebounds for the Bulls. Patrick Williams<\/a> is averaging 1.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 100.6 points, 42.4 rebounds, 24.2 assists, 6.8 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bulls: 3-7, averaging 113.3 points, 43.4 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 6.2 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nets: None listed.<\/p>\n

Bulls: Jalen Smith: out (calf), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Tre Jones: out (hamstring), Zach Collins<\/a>: out (toe), Josh Giddey<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls (24-29, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (14-37, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,9128,5235,54398,32324,32334,4600,4568,9,24,7934,63,49708,47097],"class_list":{"0":"post-126686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-egor-demin","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-josh-giddey","16":"tag-matas-buzelis","17":"tag-michael-porter-jr","18":"tag-national-basketball-association","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-nolan-traore","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-patrick-williams","24":"tag-zach-collins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}