The Indiana Pacers are currently the best team in the NBA and on Wednesday night they will tip off against the Chicago Bulls in a central division matchup starting up at 7:00 pm at Bankers Life Fieldhouse and the game will be streaming online on the Watch ESPN website and on the radio on ESPN Chicago.
The Bulls come into the game having lost their last matchup with the Philadelphia Sixers and that came after a nice win over the NY Knicks. Derrick Rose has been a bit rusty since coming back from his knee surgery and he has been healthy but off on his shooting since returning and now he will get the chance to matchup with one of the best teams in the East in the Pacers before heading home to the United Center to play the Utah Jazz on Friday for the next game. The Pacers have one of the most talented rosters in the league and players like Paul George, Luis Scola, David West and Roy Hibbert make them one of the deepest as well and their size could be the reason they are the team that takes down the Miami Heat in the East this year, which no one has been able to do in years.
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Rose has been dealing with a neck injury since coming back from his knee injury and the Bulls are struggling shooting the ball, ranking 23rd in the league in scoring through three games and they will try and rebound with a road game against the Pacers. Rose has been using neck tape to help with his injury, but the NBA hit him with a phone call and said he can't use it anymore and while they didn't give a reason, likely it has to do with the uniform code and all that and now he will not be wearing it for the Central division matchup with the Pacers. The Pacers have been the best defensive team in the league through the early stretch and now they will have a nice test with a Bulls team that is trying to right things after the loss to the Sixers and the defeat by the Miami Heat earlier.
The Pacers have a two game lead over both the Pistons and the Cavaliers and while it likely won't hold for long, the Bulls are in last place in the division with the Bucks. The Knicks have struggled as well and they are in the bottom of the Atlantic and along with the Bulls, New York, the Brooklyn Nets and the Pacers are being looked at as the strongest teams in the conference and there is a chance that the Atlanta Hawks and the Detroit Pistons could get into the mix as well, or at least the playoffs mix. The east is not as deep as the west, but it is just as top heavy, as everyone is gunning for Miami after they won the conference three times in a row and winning two championships. LeBron James just set another milestone with 10 points in 500 straight games and he joins a number of amazing scorers with that record.
Carlos Boozer led the way for the Bulls against the Miami Heat in the first game and then the team was victorious despite not having the top rebounder, scorer or disher in the game against the Knicks and then they lost to the Sixers after allowing Michael Carter-Williams to have another nice game and the team was also outrebounded big time as well from the Sixers and now they face a tough Pacers teams as they try to rebound. The team will get another chance at the Pacers later in the month when they come to the United Center, but on Wednesday the game will be at 7 pm on ESPN and streaming from Bankers Life Fieldhouse.