Chuck Checks In 12.26.2022 - NBA.com

GAME NIGHT FROM THE UNITED CENTER: Houston (9-23, 3-13 connected the road) astatine Bulls (14-18, 7-7) 7PM.
At home)
RADIO: 670 The Score: Chuck Swirsky, Bill Wennington, Alyssa Bergamini. 6:45 pre.
TV: NBCSC: Adam Amin and Stacey King: 7PM.

LEADING SCORERS: Bulls: DeRozan: 25 ppg. Houston: Green: 21 ppg.
LEADING REBOUNDERS: Bulls: Vucevic: 10 per. Houston: Sengun: 8 per.
LEADING ASSISTS: Bulls: DeRozan: 4.9 per. Houston: Porter: 5 per.

CCI PREVIEW: The Bulls pb disconnected the archetypal of a 4 crippled location basal against a Houston squad successful the basement of the Western Conference.

The Bulls played outstanding hoops to headdress disconnected their roadworthy travel with 3 consecutive wins. DeMar DeRozan averaged 26-5-6 connected the trip. He assisted connected 26 buckets and committed conscionable 4 turnovers successful that span. Zach LaVine averaged 25-4-5 connected the travel and has 5 consecutive games of shooting 50% oregon amended from the field. Nikola Vucevic has 4 consecutive games of scoring 20+ points. He has 2 double-double games successful his past 3 outings.

The Rockets person dropped 5 consecutive and successful the archetypal signifier of a large rebuild. They person the 2nd youngest roster successful the league (23 years 58 days). Houston has the cleanable manager successful Stephen Silas who brings plentifulness of patience but 1 who besides challenges his squad to make bully habits that volition transportation them done the antithetic stages of development. Jalen Green, KJ Martin, Kevin Porter Jr., Alperen Sengun and Jabari Smith person tremendous upsides but it volition instrumentality time, coupled with the information the Rockets volition beryllium successful the highly coveted " Victor Wembanyama Sweepstakes."

With 2 days disconnected the Bulls should beryllium motivated and caller to proceed their triumph streak astatine the United Center.

CCI 24 SECONDS NBA NEWS AND NOTES

Boston 139, Milwaukee 118. Jayson Tatum and Jalen Brown combined for 70 points, handing Milwaukee its archetypal 3 crippled losing streak. The Celtics ain the champion grounds successful the Eastern Conference astatine 24-10. The Bucks are 22-11.

Dallas 124, Los Angeles Lakers 115 . The Mavs scored 51 3rd 4th points. Luka Doncic and Christian Wood combined for 62 points. LeBron James with a 38-6-5 game.

Golden State 123, Memphis 109. The Warriors won contempt the lack of Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins. Jordan Poole scored 32 points. Golden State is 13-2 astatine home.

Denver 128, Phoenix 125 OT. Nikola Jokic recorded his 83rd vocation triple double: 41-15-14. Jokic had a 40-27-10 crippled past week.

Philadelphia 119, New York 122. The 76ers won their eighth straight; the Knicks suffered their 3rd consecutive loss. The Knicks fell to 23-32 successful Christmas Day games.

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