Chicago Bulls (6-6, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (10-2, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Denver; Monday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -13.5; over\/under is 241.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Chicago is looking to stop its five-game skid with a victory over Denver.<\/p>\n The Nuggets have gone 6-0 in home games. Denver scores 124.4 points while outscoring opponents by 13.1 points per game.<\/p>\n The Bulls are 1-5 on the road. Chicago is 2-1 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 15.0 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n The Nuggets’ 12.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.5 fewer made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the Bulls allow. The Bulls are shooting 48.1% from the field, 3.3% higher than the 44.8% the Nuggets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Nikola Jokic is scoring 28.7 points per game with 13.0 rebounds and 10.9 assists for the Nuggets. Tim Hardaway Jr. is averaging 23.0 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 75.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Josh Giddey is averaging 21.9 points, 9.8 rebounds and 9.7 assists for the Bulls. Coby White is averaging 27.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 9-1, averaging 122.9 points, 48.2 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Bulls: 4-6, averaging 122.7 points, 47.5 rebounds, 30.1 assists, 8.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: day to day (arm), Christian Braun: out (ankle), Julian Strawther: day to day (back), Nikola Jokic: day to day (wrist).<\/p>\n Bulls: Zach Collins: day to day (wrist), Tre Jones: day to day (ankle).<\/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 (6-6, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (10-2, second in the Western Conference) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[154874,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-296703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-154874","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}