Chicago Bulls (17-18, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (21-12, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Boston; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Chicago will try to keep its four-game road win streak intact when the Bulls face Boston.<\/p>\n
The Celtics have gone 15-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Boston is 4-3 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 13-12 against Eastern Conference opponents. Chicago is third in the Eastern Conference with 45.6 rebounds per game led by Nikola Vucevic averaging 8.9.<\/p>\n
The Celtics are shooting 47.6% from the field this season, the same percentage the Bulls allow to opponents. The Bulls are shooting 47.4% from the field, 2.4% higher than the 45.0% the Celtics’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jaylen Brown is averaging 29.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and five assists for the Celtics.<\/p>\n
Matas Buzelis is averaging 14.4 points and 5.4 rebounds for the Bulls. Vucevic is averaging 28.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 6-3, averaging 119.3 points, 43.7 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bulls: 7-3, averaging 120.8 points, 46.4 rebounds, 32.5 assists, 6.8 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles).<\/p>\n
Bulls: Coby White: out (calf), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jalen Smith: day to day (concussion protocol), Josh Giddey: out (hamstring), Zach Collins: day to day (toe), Trentyn Flowers: day to day (knee).<\/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":"Chicago Bulls (17-18, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (21-12, third in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[188233,966,20509,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-387042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-188233","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387042","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=387042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}