{"id":705138,"date":"2026-04-08T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:58:57","slug":"bulls-129-98-wizards-apr-7-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705138\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls 129-98 Wizards (Apr 7, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4684275\/rob-dillingham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Dillingham<\/a> scored a career-high 26 points and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> ended a seven-game skid, pounding the NBA-worst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> 129-98 on Tuesday night in the opener of a two-game set.<\/p>\n<p>              In the first game since they <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bulls-arturas-karnisovas-f0aa7ff19acebbfbdf6c85bce7aebf49\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired their top two basketball executives,<\/a> the Bulls were in firm control by the end of the first quarter, leading 38-18 against a Washington team that&#8217;s seeking to maximize its odds of landing a top draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>              Chicago extended its lead to 66-37 by halftime and 100-63 by the end of the third against a Wizards team that appeared disinterested on defense. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431687\/patrick-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Williams<\/a> added a season-high 20 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395626\/tre-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tre Jones<\/a> had 20 points and nine assists for the Bulls, who play at Washington again on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              The Bulls were 23-22 on Jan. 24 but have collapsed since, losing 27 of 34. Chicago made the playoffs just once in six seasons under executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley, both of whom were fired Monday. On Tuesday, CEO Michael Reinsdorf said <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chicago-bulls-michael-reinsdorf-billy-donovan-c3788b17f630a752c3d20f32c00a16d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he wanted coach Billy Donovan to return<\/a> next season.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5104155\/bilal-coulibaly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> scored 19 points for the Wizards, who have lost seven straight and 23 of 24. Washington started two players on two-way contracts, Juju Reese and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395650\/leaky-black\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leaky Black<\/a>, along with veteran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2581184\/anthony-gill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Gill<\/a>, who has long been one of the last options off the Wizards\u2019 bench but has seen regular playing time lately with the roster depleted by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>              Reese had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432173\/sharife-cooper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharife Cooper<\/a> also scored 17.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              The Bulls go for a sweep of their three games against the Wizards this season.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; \u2014 Rob Dillingham scored a career-high 26 points and the Chicago Bulls ended a seven-game skid,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-705138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705138","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=705138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}