The Los Angeles Clippers (19-24) came into Tuesday night riding a six-game winning streak, looking every bit like the team many expected to compete in the Western Conference this season.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Bulls (21-22) didn’t care.<\/p>\n
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Behind one of the best shooting nights in franchise history, Chicago buried Los Angeles 138-110 at the United Center and put a sudden end to the Clippers’ hot streak.<\/p>\n
It was clear early on the Bulls had something cooking.<\/p>\n
Chicago connected on 25 three-pointers to tie a franchise record, with seven different players reaching double figures in what turned into a blowout.<\/p>\n
Coby White led the charge with a season-high 27 points on 6-for-10 shooting from deep, setting the tone as the Bulls raced out to a 21-point halftime lead.<\/p>\n
The Clippers did try to make things interesting in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
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John Collins caught fire with 11 points, throwing down an alley-oop off an Ivica Zubac feed before draining a three to cut the deficit to just six. For a moment, it felt like Los Angeles might steal one.<\/p>\n
Then Chicago slammed the door shut with a 13-0 run, featuring five different scorers, showing the kind of balanced attack that makes this Bulls team dangerous when they’re clicking.<\/p>\n
The Clippers were already without Kawhi Leonard, who was sent home from the road trip with a left knee contusion and has now missed three straight.<\/p>\n
Without their star, Los Angeles never found their footing.<\/p>\n
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James Harden poured in 24 points, and Collins added 23 off the bench, but it wasn’t nearly enough against a Bulls squad that couldn’t miss.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles shot just 3-for-13 from three in the first half and trailed by as many as 31 points.<\/p>\n
Still, the bigger picture isn’t all bad for the Clippers.<\/p>\n
They finished their grueling road trip with travel across the continent with a winning record, and the young guys stepped up throughout the stretch, and that depth will matter down the line.<\/p>\n
Matas Buzelis added 21 points for Chicago while Nikola Vucevic chipped in 19 points and eight boards.<\/p>\n
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Ayo Dosunmu had 18 off the bench, and Tre Jones stuffed the stat sheet with 15 points and 10 assists as the Bulls improved to 13-9 at home.<\/p>\n
Josh Giddey sat out with a hamstring strain but could return Thursday when Chicago heads to Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The Clippers, meanwhile, head back to Los Angeles for a Thursday night showdown against the Lakers.<\/p>\n
It was an ugly finish to the road trip, but 2-1 is nothing to be upset about, especially with Leonard set to be reevaluated once the team gets home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Clippers (19-24) came into Tuesday night riding a six-game winning streak, looking every bit like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[4102,7,920,919,329,3824,963,7994,532,6971,965,529,192,251,973,307,6,3853,2152,6277,10834],"class_list":{"0":"post-550514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-ayo-dosunmu","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bulls","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-chicagobulls","14":"tag-coby-white","15":"tag-franchise-history","16":"tag-ivica-zubac","17":"tag-john-collins","18":"tag-josh-giddey","19":"tag-kawhi-leonard","20":"tag-la-clippers","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-matas-buzelis","23":"tag-minnesota","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-nikola-vucevic","26":"tag-the-lakers","27":"tag-tre-jones","28":"tag-united-center"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115931783182467321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550514","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=550514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}