The Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks are playing live on the NBA schedule on Saturday night and the game from Madison Square Garden starts up at 7:30 pm ET. The Knicks are coming in after a win and both teams are finishing up back to back games with the matchup.
The Bulls likely will be tired after playing a four overtime game against the Pistons and the team comes in after a three plus hour game. The Knicks had an easy win against the Sixers and now they have the chance to get back to .500. The team didn't get their sixth win of the season until January last season and that makes the 13-14 record a nice improvement for NY, who is looking to win four straight.
The team slumped a bit on a recent road trip, but now they have the chance to bounce back with this stretch of games. The Bulls come in at 15-9, but the back to back likely will make them very tired and they also are about to play their seventh game in 11 days, a brutal stretch for any NBA team. The Bulls only lost once in five games at home in their last stretch at the United Center and now they will try and bounce back against the Knicks at MSG.
The Knicks won big over the Sixers and while Kristaps Porzingis has been struggling a bit on the offensive side of things, he has been improving on defense. Porzingis has averaged five blocks over the last two games and he has been one of the main reasons for the Knicks success this season overall. The Knicks did not win their 14th game until March of last season and that gives the team a chance to get it done against the Bulls after winning three of the last four games at home.
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