Miami Heat (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (8-6, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Friday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Heat travel to face the Miami Heat in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 5-4 in Eastern Conference games. Chicago is 3-3 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Heat are 5-3 against conference opponents. Miami leads the Eastern Conference scoring 123.6 points per game while shooting 48.3%.<\/p>\n
The Bulls make 48.0% of their shots from the field this season, which is 4.6 percentage points higher than the Heat have allowed to their opponents (43.4%). The Heat average 13.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.3 more made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the Bulls allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Giddey is averaging 20.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 9.7 assists for the Bulls. Nikola Vucevic is averaging 27 points and eight rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Andrew Wiggins is averaging 16.7 points for the Heat. Norman Powell is averaging 25.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 4-6, averaging 122.5 points, 46.9 rebounds, 30.1 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 126.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Heat: 6-4, averaging 122.7 points, 43.9 rebounds, 30.6 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bulls: Zach Collins: day to day (wrist), Tre Jones: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
Heat: Nikola Jovic: day to day (hip), Tyler Herro: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat (9-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (8-6, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[157464,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-302886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-157464","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\/302886","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=302886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}