Miami Heat (20-17, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (17-20, 10th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Heat -6.5; over\/under is 241.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Chicago will try to stop its three-game slide when the Bulls take on Miami.<\/p>\n The Bulls are 13-14 in Eastern Conference games. Chicago has a 7-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n The Heat are 12-10 in Eastern Conference play. Miami averages 120.1 points while outscoring opponents by 2.7 points per game.<\/p>\n The Bulls average 117.1 points per game, 0.3 fewer points than the 117.4 the Heat allow. The Heat are shooting 46.9% from the field, 0.5% lower than the 47.4% the Bulls’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams meet for the second time this season. The Heat won 143-107 in the last matchup on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Nikola Vucevic is scoring 16.5 points per game with 9.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Bulls. Matas Buzelis is averaging 17.7 points and 5.0 rebounds while shooting 50.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Norman Powell is averaging 24.3 points for the Heat. Jaime Jaquez Jr. is averaging 14.7 points and 3.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Bulls: 5-5, averaging 113.9 points, 46.3 rebounds, 30.8 assists, 5.1 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Heat: 5-5, averaging 119.9 points, 45.8 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 10.7 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.8 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Bulls: Coby White: day to day (calf), Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Jalen Smith: day to day (concussion protocol), Josh Giddey: out (hamstring), Zach Collins: day to day (toe).<\/p>\n Heat: Jaime Jaquez Jr.: 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":"Miami Heat (20-17, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (17-20, 10th in the Eastern Conference) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[191096,966,20509,4,450,451,1063,3,99,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-394816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-191096","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breakingnews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394816","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=394816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394816\/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=394816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}