Karl-Anthony Towns had 28 points and 11 rebounds and Jalen Brunson added 19 points and nine assists to lift the visiting New York Knicks to a 105-99 win against the slumping Chicago Bulls on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Chicago has lost nine games in a row, its longest losing streak since a 10-game skid in the 2018-19 season. Sunday marked the narrowest defeat during the slide.<\/p>\n
Matas Buzelis paced the Bulls with 15 points while Guerschon Yabusele posted a double-double of 11 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Collin Sexton and Buzelis hit 3-pointers to bookend an 8-0 Bulls run that put the hosts ahead 95-94 with 3:42 remaining. But the Knicks closed the game on an 11-4 surge, with Towns scoring six points. He has scored at least 20 points in five consecutive games.<\/p>\n
New York took a 60-59 lead on a Mikal Bridges 3-pointer with 10:03 remaining in the third quarter. That set the Knicks on a 13-2 run that saw Brunson contribute seven points and Bridges five.<\/p>\n
Both teams were playing the second leg of a back-to-back. As with Saturday’s home loss to the Detroit Pistons, when they trailed by just three points at the break, the Bulls lost steam in the third quarter Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Knicks outscored the Bulls 31-25 in the quarter while forcing Chicago into seven turnovers. The Bulls had just six giveaways in the first half.<\/p>\n
Landry Shamet (16 points), Josh Hart (11), and Bridges (11) also scored in double figures in the game for the Knicks.<\/p>\n
Isaac Okoro and Jalen Smith both had 12 points for Chicago. Patrick Williams added 10 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n
Chicago led by as many as eight points in the first half and took a 53-52 lead into the break.<\/p>\n
Okoro, Smith, and Yabusele scored nine first-half points apiece while combining to make six of the team’s nine 3-pointers before intermission.<\/p>\n
Towns led all scorers with 17 points in the first half.<\/p>\n
New York earned at least a split of the four-game season series with Chicago, stopping the Bulls’ bid to claim consecutive season series for the first time since 2013. The Knicks host the Bulls on April 3 in their final regular-season meeting.<\/p>\n
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