{"id":538199,"date":"2026-01-15T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/538199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:26:25","slug":"vucevics-layup-helps-bulls-overcome-brice-sensabaughs-hot-hand-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/538199\/","title":{"rendered":"Vucevic\u2019s layup helps Bulls overcome Brice Sensabaugh&#8217;s hot hand \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Nikola Vucevic made a tiebreaking layup with 4 seconds remaining, and the Chicago Bulls overcame Brice Sensabaugh\u2019s career-high 43 points to beat the Utah Jazz 128-126 on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vucevic scored 35 points to lead the Bulls, who had five reserves finish in double figures. Isaac Okoro was the only other starter in double figures with 12 points for a Bulls team playing without Josh Giddey because of strained left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sensabaugh <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sensabaugh-jazz-bulls-scoring-f3e465d9d54dbc28a266d2d099edc9ee?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scored 21 in the first quarter<\/a>, the most by a player off the bench in the period since play-by-play tracking for all four quarters began in 1996-97. He helped carry Utah in a game it played without leading scorer Lauri Markkanen because of an illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jazz, who trailed by 12 with 5 1\/2 minutes remaining, rallied to tie it at 126 on Sensabaugh\u2019s layup with 28.5 seconds to go. Coby White then missed a 3-pointer for Chicago, but Okoro tracked it down and got it along the sideline to Tre Jones, who fired a pass to an open Vucevic under the basket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Keyonte George, who sparked Utah\u2019s comeback with 15 points in the final period, missing a 3-pointer that would have won it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">George scored 25 points and Kyle Filipowski had 19 for the Jazz, who were coming off a surprising victory at Cleveland on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The game featured 26 ties and 17 lead changes in another close finish between the teams following Utah\u2019s 150-147 victory in two overtimes in the first meeting this season. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Utah Jazz forward Brice Sensabaugh (28), right, guards Chicago Bulls guard Coby White (0) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Chicago.\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33;background-color:#F3F1F0;cursor:pointer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768476385_465_YUGV2FH7DBEIPEL6RFR4WRUGGI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Utah Jazz forward Brice Sensabaugh (28), right, guards Chicago Bulls guard Coby White (0) during game Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Chicago. | AP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Nikola Vucevic made a tiebreaking layup with 4 seconds remaining, and the Chicago Bulls overcame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6,1111],"class_list":{"0":"post-538199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news-feed-local"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115898875490205302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}