Chicago Bulls (21-22, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (27-17, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota will try to stop its three-game losing streak when the Timberwolves take on Chicago.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves have gone 15-6 at home. Minnesota ranks seventh in the Western Conference with 51.0 points per game in the paint led by Julius Randle averaging 10.7.<\/p>\n
The Bulls have gone 7-13 away from home. Chicago is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.9 points per game and is shooting 47.7%.<\/p>\n
The Timberwolves score 120.1 points per game, 0.1 more points than the 120.0 the Bulls give up. The Bulls average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 12.4 per game the Timberwolves allow.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Timberwolves won the last meeting 136-101 on Dec. 30. Naz Reid scored 33 points to help lead the Timberwolves to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Anthony Edwards is shooting 49.9% and averaging 29.9 points for the Timberwolves. Randle is averaging 22.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikola Vucevic is averaging 17 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Bulls. Matas Buzelis is averaging 17.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timberwolves: 6-4, averaging 124.6 points, 46.5 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 9.0 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 51.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Bulls: 5-5, averaging 115.1 points, 44.2 rebounds, 31.5 assists, 7.5 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Timberwolves: Terrence Shannon Jr.: out (foot).<\/p>\n
Bulls: Noa Essengue: out for season (shoulder), Josh Giddey: day to day (hamstring), Zach Collins: out (toe), Patrick Williams: day to day (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":"Chicago Bulls (21-22, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (27-17, seventh in the Western Conference) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[200909,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":["post-420483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-200909","tag-article","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420483","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=420483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}