{"id":322999,"date":"2026-11-07T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322999\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:34:09","slug":"chicago-takes-on-philadelphia-aims-to-halt-6-game-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322999\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago takes on Philadelphia, aims to halt 6-game slide"},"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\/philadelphia-76ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> (8-2, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chicago-bulls-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> (1-7, 14th 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=\"\">Chicago; Sunday, 3:30 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 heads into the matchup against Philadelphia as losers of six in a row.<\/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, 19-32 in Eastern Conference play and 18-23 at home during the 2025-26 season. The Bulls averaged 28.5 assists per game on 42.4 made field goals last season.<\/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 and 27-25 in Eastern Conference play during the 2025-26 season. The 76ers gave up 116.1 points per game while committing 20.3 fouls last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The teams meet for the second time this season. The 76ers won 126-107 in the last matchup on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Bulls: Jalen Smith: day to day (hand), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/nicolas-claxton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nic Claxton<\/a>: day to day (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">76ers: Ariel Hukporti: out for season (achilles), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/adem-bona-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adem Bona<\/a>: day to day (spine), 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=\"\">___<\/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 Philadelphia 76ers (8-2, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (1-7, 14th in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23937,15350,56878,14498,129704,69,1002,71,70],"class_list":["post-322999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-adem-bona","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nic-claxton","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322999","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=322999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}