BOSTON – – Kristaps Porzingis scored 26 of his 34 factors within the first half within the first half, and the Boston Celtics went to a 122-100 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night.
The porzingis of seven toes 2 inch made eight finest pictures at 3 factors in 14 makes an attempt with 11 rebounds in 33 minutes, serving to Boston to rebound from a brutal residence defeat to the Rockets on Monday.
Jaylen Brown added 28 factors, Derrick White had 22 and Jayson Tatum 16 for the Celtics lately from high to backside, which have solely 7-6 of their final 13 video games.
Coby White led Chicago with 16 factors in 31 minutes in his first recreation after lacking 4 video games in a row with an ankle damage. The Bulls have misplaced eight of the 9.
The highest scorer of the Bulls, Zach Lavine, missed the match for private causes.
The second in Tatum of three consecutive factors 15 seconds aside in half the third quarter gave Boston his greatest advance within the match, 86-62.
The Bulls beat the Celtics throughout their earlier journey to TD Backyard on December 19 when Lavine scored 36 factors however was exploded by 25 factors two days later at residence.
Bulls: They actually gave the impression to be lacking 24.0 factors per staff of Lavine per recreation for the sections.
Celtics: had been concentrated from the beginning after the irritating lack of two factors in opposition to Houston. They opened a two -digit edge simply over two minutes after the beginning of the match.
After the Celtics advance was minimize to 6, they made a 13-0 race on a bit of just about 4 minutes midway by the second. Brown had 9 factors in insanity.
Porzingis has established its 3S 3S season summit for a match by connecting out of six within the first half.
The Bulls play the intermediate match of their three -game street journey in Toronto on Friday. The Celtics are in New Orleans, additionally Friday, the primary of their three-game journeys.
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