{"id":693105,"date":"2026-04-02T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:36:18","slug":"indiana-pacers-beat-chicago-bulls-to-move-out-of-the-nba-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693105\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers beat Chicago Bulls to move out of the NBA basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Pascal Siakam scored 25 points and the Indiana Pacers beat the Chicago Bulls 145-126 on Wednesday night to move out of the NBA basement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coming off a home victory over Miami on Sunday, the injury-ravaged Pacers had their highest-scoring game of the season. They improved to 18-58 to move a game ahead of last-place Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ethan Thompson added 24 points, and Kobe Brown and Jay Huff each had 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guerschon Yabusele led Chicago with 20 points, and Collin Sexton had 18. The Bulls have lost five straight \u2014 the first four on the road \u2014 to fall to 29-47.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pacers: At Charlotte on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bulls: At New York on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Pascal Siakam scored 25 points and the Indiana Pacers beat the Chicago Bulls 145-126 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-693105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pacers","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332789594836827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693105","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=693105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}