{"id":318791,"date":"2026-11-01T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318791\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:58:07","slug":"chicago-faces-philadelphia-looks-to-stop-4-game-skid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/318791\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago faces Philadelphia, looks to stop 4-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chicago-bulls-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> (1-5, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (6-1, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Philadelphia; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Chicago aims to break its four-game skid with a victory against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Philadelphia finished 45-37 overall, 27-25 in Eastern Conference play and 23-18 at home during the 2025-26 season. The 76ers averaged 18.9 points off of turnovers, 15.4 second-chance points and 32.4 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Chicago finished 31-51 overall and 19-32 in Eastern Conference games during the 2025-26 season. The Bulls shot 46.9% from the field and 35.6% from 3-point range last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: 76ers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ariel-hukporti-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Hukporti<\/a>: out for season (achilles), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/lebron-james-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a>: out (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/joel-embiid-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Embiid<\/a>: out (foot), Dominick Barlow: out (back).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Bulls: Dailyn Swain: day to day (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/nicolas-claxton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nic Claxton<\/a>: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Chicago Bulls (1-5, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (6-1, first in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39662,15350,56878,5955,18831,14498,129704,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-318791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ariel-hukporti","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-event_preview","tag-joel-embiid","tag-lebron-james","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nic-claxton","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}