{"id":666520,"date":"2026-03-19T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/666520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:43:13","slug":"collin-sexton-returns-for-bulls-against-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/666520\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin Sexton returns for Bulls against Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls guard Collin Sexton returned to the lineup on Wednesday night after being sidelined for four games because of a lower left leg contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Sexton scored 14 points on 4-for-7 shooting during <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/raptors-bulls-score-206f8776a1d6e6e142c5ea06c8aefefa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 139-109 loss<\/a> to Toronto. He also had five assists while playing almost 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Sexton got hurt during a 126-110 loss at Sacramento on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow guard Isaac Okoro missed his fifth consecutive game because of right knee pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say he\u2019s probably a little bit longer than day to day,\u201d Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. \u201cJust dealing with the knee soreness there. I think he\u2019s still feeling it. &#8230; He\u2019s on the court doing some stuff, but it\u2019s pretty limited right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okoro, 25, <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-bulls-trade-fc3d6214575836af56b13c9dcb8c175c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was acquired<\/a> in a trade with Cleveland. He is averaging 9.0 points in 55 games in his first season with Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s incredibly unselfish, in terms of he\u2019s not like trying to hunt shots, trying to hunt points,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cEverything, when you talk to him, it\u2019s never about him. It\u2019s always about the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sexton was acquired in a February trade with Charlotte. He was averaging 16.2 points in 12 games with Chicago going into the matchup with Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Chicago Bulls guard Collin Sexton returned to the lineup on Wednesday night after being sidelined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,3363,920,919,329,3824,1585,8382,2048,3891,6,446,986,66],"class_list":["post-666520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bulls","tag-basketball","tag-billy-donovan","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicagobulls","tag-collin-sexton","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-isaac-okoro","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sacramento","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116254725476869369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666520","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=666520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}