14 games will happen in the NBA on Friday night but I'm going to talk about the game between New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls. Both teams play in the Eastern Conference, and the Knicks have performed better so far this season. With 18 wins and 14 losses, New York is the 6th best team in the conference while the Bulls have 13 wins, 18 losses, and just the 11th place. In this game, I'm picking New York to win.

New York was on 8 game winning streak heading into the matchup against Toronto Raptors. It was 2nd game in 2 days for the Knicks and they couldn't stop Pascal Siakam who scored 52 points as they lost to Toronto 106:113 which ended their winning streak. During the streak, New York won 4 games at home and all were with at least 11 points.

Chicago is not having the best season so far. This will be the 4th and last game on the road trip and the Bulls have won 2 games. They started the trip with a blowout loss in Minnesota (126:150), but Chicago won in Miami (113:103) and Atlanta (110:108). It must be said that Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry didn't play for the Heat while in Atlanta the Bulls won at the buzzer when the ball luckily got into Ayo Dosunmu's hands who hit the game-winner.

The Knicks have been a decent home team with 8 wins and 8 losses while the Bulls have struggled on the road with just 6 wins and 11 losses and they have just 2 wins in the last 6 road games. Last week teams met twice in Chicago, and the Knicks won both matchups. New York won the first game in overtime by 8 points and in the 2nd game, the Knicks won by 23 points.

Teams are having an equal rest, and the Knicks have covered the spread in 60% of games when both teams are having equal rest while Chicago has done it only in 39% of the games. When New York has rested 1 day, they have covered the spread in the next games 56% of the time while the Bulls have done it in only 33% of the games. In New York, the Bulls have covered the spread just once in the last 6 games while the Knicks have covered the spread in 6 out of the last 8 meetings.

We can't forget that there are some frustrations in Chicago's camp as they don't like Zach LaVine's defense and it has caused some incidents between players. New Yorkers' motivation to get back on the winning track should be sky-high and they know that Chicago is a beatable team.

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NBA周五晚上有14场比赛，但我今天要讲的是纽约尼克斯队和芝加哥公牛队之间的比赛。两支球队都在东部，尼克斯本赛季到目前为止表现更好。纽约队18胜14负，在西部排名第六，而公牛队13胜18负，仅排在第11位。在这场比赛中，我选纽约赢。

纽约在对阵猛龙的比赛中保持着8连胜。这是尼克斯在两天内的第二场比赛，他们无法阻止帕斯卡·西亚卡姆，他得到52分，他们以106:113输给了多伦多，结束了他们的连胜。在这波连胜中，纽约队在主场赢了4场比赛，并且都至少得到11分。

到目前为止，芝加哥的表现不是最好的。这将是第四场也是最后一场客场之旅，公牛队已经赢了两场比赛。他们以一场惨败(126:150)开始了他们的旅程，但芝加哥在迈阿密(113:103)和亚特兰大(110:108)赢得了胜利。必须指出的是，吉米·巴特勒和凯尔·洛瑞并没有为热火效力，而在亚特兰大，公牛队在压哨时赢得了比赛，当时球幸运地落入了Ayo Dosunmu的手中，他击中了制胜球。

尼克斯8胜8负是一支不错的主场球队，而公牛在客场表现不佳，只有6胜11负，他们在最近6场客场比赛中只赢了2场。上周两支球队在芝加哥相遇两次，尼克斯赢得了两场比赛。纽约队在加时赛中以8分的优势赢得第一场比赛，在第二场比赛中，尼克斯队以23分的优势获胜。

两支球队休息时间相同，当两支球队休息时间相同时，尼克斯在60%的比赛中覆盖了范围，而芝加哥只在39%的比赛中做到了这一点。当纽约队休息1天时，他们在接下来的比赛中有56%的时间覆盖了差距，而公牛队只有33%的比赛做到了这一点。在纽约，公牛队在过去的6场比赛中只有一次突破，而尼克斯队在过去的8次交锋中有6次突破。

我们不能忘记芝加哥的球队也有一些不满，因为他们不喜欢扎克·拉文的防守，这导致了球员之间的一些冲突。纽约人重新回到胜利轨道的动机应该是非常高的，他们知道芝加哥是一支可以击败的球队。