{"id":543197,"date":"2026-01-17T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:18:17","slug":"chicago-in-the-same-situation-after-loss-to-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543197\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago in the same situation after loss to Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, the Chicago Bulls<\/a> came up short against the Brooklyn Nets 112-109. As a result, they have a record of 19-22, and history is repeating itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other words, the Bulls have virtually the exact record<\/a> at this point during the season for the third time in four years, per Sam Smith of NBA.com. Afterward, Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 recognized that reality by connecting it to the problem of injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of injuries, hard to judge,\u201d said Vu\u010devi\u0107. \u201cI guess we are kind of the same where we were the last four years, kind of the same situation. We\u2019ve had some injuries, some games didn\u2019t play as well\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bulls managed to come back from a 20-point deficit to make it 100-98 with under four minutes left.<\/p>\n

\u201cProud of the guys for continuing to play and battling to the end,\u201d said Vu\u010devi\u0107. With 5.4 seconds left in the game, the Bulls trailed 110-109. Tre Jones inbounded the ball, and it was deflected by Drake Powell, resulting in a foul on Noah Clowney.<\/p>\n

In the end, Clowney made both free throws, leaving Vu\u010devi\u0107 to throw up a desperation shot from half court, but to no avail.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Bulls will be back in Chicago for the rubber match against the Nets. At the beginning of the year, the Bulls surprised most with a 6-1 start<\/a>. However, injuries, losing streaks, and inconsistency have brought them back to what they are used to.<\/p>\n

Vu\u010devi\u0107, 35, has played in 40 games this year. He is averaging 17.0 points and 9.1 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Chicago Bulls came up short against the Brooklyn Nets 112-109. As a result, they have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,329,6,671,3853],"class_list":{"0":"post-543197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nets","15":"tag-nikola-vucevic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115911820888872189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543197","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=543197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}