{"id":693528,"date":"2026-04-02T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:52:41","slug":"pacers-beat-the-bulls-145-126-to-move-out-of-the-nba-basement-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693528\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers beat the Bulls 145-126 to move out of the NBA basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/pascal-siakam-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Siakam<\/a> scored 25 points and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/indiana-pacers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chicago-bulls-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> 145-126 on Wednesday night to move out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> basement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/ethan-thompson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Thompson<\/a> added 24 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kobe-brown-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jay-huff-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Huff<\/a> each had 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/guerschon-yabusele-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guerschon Yabusele<\/a> led Chicago with 20 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/collin-sexton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Sexton<\/a> had 18. The Bulls have lost five straight \u2014 the first four on the road \u2014 to fall to 29-47.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Pacers: At Charlotte on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Bulls: At New York on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/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":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,329,1585,31821,79016,204,126,4960,4042,1407,6,12,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-693528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-collin-sexton","11":"tag-ethan-thompson","12":"tag-event_recap","13":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","14":"tag-indiana-pacers","15":"tag-jay-huff","16":"tag-kobe-brown","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-draft","20":"tag-pascal-siakam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116334269783957813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693528","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=693528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}