Norman Powell has scored 25 points, and rookie Caleb Wilson has added 21 to help the visiting Chicago Bulls earn a 132-125 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks.
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Bulls → score → Bucks
Leonard Miller had 19 points on Friday while Jalen Smith chipped in 14 points and 13 rebounds for Chicago, who rebounded after suffering a 43-point loss to the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday.
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who → have → Wednesday
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Buddy Hield scored 13, Isaac Okoro had 12 and Tre Jones tallied 11 points and eight assists for the Bulls, who trailed by 15 points after the first quarter.
Tyler Herro led Milwaukee with 34 points, followed by Jaime Jaquez Jr’s 19 points and 11 boards.
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Herro → know → points
Kyle Kuzma scored 14, and Myles Turner had 12 while Ryan Rollins, AJ Green and Kel’el Ware scored 11 apiece for the Bucks, who lost their second straight game to open the season.
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who → score → season
Rookie Brayden Burries made a three-pointer, and Ware scored around the rim to give the Bucks a five-point lead with 2:55 left in the third quarter.
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2:55 → make → quarter
Smith beat the third-quarter buzzer with a dunk that cut the Bulls’ deficit to 104-102 entering the fourth.
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that → beat → fourth
Chicago scored the first six points of the final quarter and grabbed a 108-104 lead on Wilson’s slam.
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Chicago → score → slam
The Bulls pushed the lead to eight on Hield’s trey with 7:19 remaining.
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Bulls → push → 7:19
With Milwaukee trailing by five, Herro connected on back-to-back three-pointers, returning the lead to the Bucks.
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Herro → trail → Bucks
Wilson made two free throws to put the Bulls ahead 124-123 with 1:16 left.
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Wilson → make → 1:16
After Jones picked off Rollins’s pass, Wilson made another pair from the foul line to push the lead to three.
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Wilson → pick → three
A missed three-pointer by Herro and two more free throws from Powell gave the Bulls a five-point cushion with 20 seconds left.
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pointer → miss → seconds
Wilson’s steal and Jones’s subsequent two foul shots sealed Chicago’s victory.
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steal → seal → victory
Milwaukee jumped out to a 19-6 lead on Herro’s first triple less than five minutes in.
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Milwaukee → jump → triple
Green sank a three-pointer in the closing seconds of the first quarter to give the Bucks a 32-17 advantage.
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Green → sink → advantage
Matas Buzelis’s slam pulled the Bulls within seven, but Kasparas Jakucionis and Rollins hit consecutive treys to build the margin to 44-31 with 8:35 left in the first half.
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8:35 → pull → half
Chicago answered again and took a 55-51 lead on Hield’s three-pointer, which stamped a 16-0 run.
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which → answer → run
Kuzma made a layup with three seconds left in the first half to give the Bucks a 62-61 halftime edge.
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Kuzma → make → edge
Hawks crush Hornets, set franchise mark for largest win
Jalen Johnson and reserve Aaron Wiggins each scored 19 points as visiting Atlanta blew out the Charlotte Hornets 128-81, the biggest margin of victory in Hawks history.
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Atlanta → crush → history
The 47-point gap topped the old record of 46 set in a 126-80 victory over the Sacramento Kings in 2017.
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gap → top → 2017
Nickeil Alexander-Walker put up 14 points, CJ McCollum posted 13 points, Dyson Daniels contributed 11 points, nine rebounds and seven steals and Corey Kispert also had 11 points for Atlanta, which won its second straight to start the season.
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which → put → season
It was a miserable home opener for the Hornets, who won two nights earlier at Brooklyn to start their campaign.
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who → win → campaign
They committed 27 turnovers.
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They → commit → turnovers
Naz Reid scored 17 points for Charlotte and Grayson Allen came off the bench for 11 points.
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Allen → score → points
Reserve Tidjane Salaun also scored 11 points.
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Salaun → score → points
The gap reached 97-62 by the end of the third quarter.
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gap → reach → quarter
The Hornets couldn’t even get it cranked up when the margin was out of hand, needing about six and a half minutes to reach a double-digit total in the fourth quarter.
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margin → get → quarter
Celtics send Knicks to second straight loss
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Celtics → send → loss
Jayson Tatum scored a game-high 36 points, including nine late in the fourth quarter, as the Boston Celtics withstood a late comeback bid by the visiting New York Knicks to escape with a 107-103 victory.
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Celtics → score → victory
Tatum finished with nine rebounds and seven assists for the Celtics, who have split their first two games.
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who → finish → games
Paul George and reserve Neemias Queta had 15 points apiece while Derrick White added 12 points.
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White → have → points
Celtics centre Mitchell Robinson, the lone member of the Knicks’ rotation who didn’t return to the defending NBA champions, had four points and four rebounds in 22-plus minutes.
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who → return → minutes
Karl-Anthony Towns (22 points, 10 rebounds), OG Anunoby (20 points, 10 rebounds) and Josh Hart (10 points, 12 rebounds) all had double-doubles for the Knicks, who have lost their first two games.
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who → have → games
New York has taken consecutive losses for the first time since dropping Games 2 and 3 of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks in April, after which the Knicks won 15 of the next 16 games to clinch their first title since 1973.
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Knicks → take → 1973
Miles McBride scored 20 points off the New York bench while Jalen Brunson had 19 points.
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Brunson → score → points
The Celtics led by as many as 12 points three times in the fourth quarter, the last at 94-82 on a three-point play by Queta, before the Knicks mounted a 9-0 run.
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Knicks → lead → run
Boston missed seven consecutive shots as New York rallied.
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York → miss → shots
Towns dunked to pull the Knicks within 94-91 with 4:09 left, but he missed a long three-point attempt 28 seconds later, and Tatum responded with a layup to end the Celtics’ drought.
The Knicks got within 99-98 on Brunson’s fallaway jumper with 1:41 remaining, but Tatum sank a turnaround over Hart after a timeout, and Towns was whistled for an illegal screen on the next possession.
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Towns → dunk → possession
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