Chuck Checks In - 01.08.2023 - NBA.com

FINAL FROM THE UNITED CENTER: Bulls 126 Utah 118 (Bulls: 19-21, 11-9 astatine home).

LEADING SCORERS: Bulls: LaVine: 36pts. Utah: Markkanen: 28 pts.
LEADING REBOUNDERS: Bulls: Vucevic: 16. Utah: Vanderbilt: 14
LEADING ASSISTS: Bulls: DeRozan : 7. Utah: Clarkson: 8.

CCI STAT OF THE GAME: Zach LaVine with 36 points and DeMar DeRozan with 35 points became the archetypal brace to registry 30/30 performances successful a crippled since DeRozan and Coby White accomplished the feat against Sacramento successful February, 2022.

CCI RECAP: The Bulls turned it connected successful the 4th fourth scoring 42 points and hung connected for a hard fought victory, sweeping the play bid from the Jazz. The Bulls won their 3rd consecutive and eighth of their past 11.

LaVine capped disconnected a terrific backmost to backmost aft pouring successful 41 points against the 76ers. He drained six-three pointers against the Jazz, including 3 straight. DeRozan had 35 points without attempting a 3 , going 9 of 10 from the foul line. The Bulls made 25 of 32 escaped throws.

Nikola Vucevic recorded his 5th consecutive double-double crippled and 21st connected the season.

Utah was led by Lauri Markkanen's 28 points. The Jazz scored 68 points successful the paint.

NEXT: At Boston Monday.

CCI 24 SECONDS NBA NEWS AND NOTES

Boston 121, San Antonio 116. Jayson Tatum scored 34 points. The Celtics person won six of eight.

Orlando 115, Golden State 101. The Warriors dropped consecutive location games for the archetypal clip this season.

Dallas 127, New Orleans 117. Luka Doncic recorded his ninth triple-double crippled of the play 34-10-10.

Los Angeles Lakers 136, Sacramento 134. The Lakers moved wrong 2 games of the .500 mark. LeBron James had 387-8-7.

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