{"id":707107,"date":"2026-04-10T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:00:50","slug":"leonard-millers-career-night-fuels-2nd-win-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707107\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Miller’s career night fuels 2nd win in row"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Leonard Miller scored a career-high 26 points and matched his career best with 11 rebounds, helping the Chicago Bulls ease to a 119-108 victory over the Washington Wizards on Thursday night to sweep a two-game set.<\/p>\n

Tre Jones scored 31 points and Collin Sexton added 27 for the Bulls, who won 129-98<\/a> at Washington on Tuesday night to snap a seven-game skid. The Bulls won consecutive games for the first time since Jan. 22-24; they are 8-27 since then.<\/p>\n

Miller, Jones and Sexton combined to shoot 65.3% (32 of 49) as the Bulls (31-49) pulled even with Milwaukee for 11th place in the Eastern Conference and the best record among teams eliminated from postseason contention.<\/p>\n

Bulls center Guerschon Yabusele exited early in the third quarter with a sprained left shoulder.<\/p>\n

Will Riley scored 23 points to lead the Wizards, who had 10 players sidelined by injuries.<\/p>\n

Julian Reese added 16 points and 15 rebounds for the NBA-worst Wizards, who have lost 24 of 25 to sink to 17-63 with two games remaining.<\/p>\n

The Bulls took control by outscoring the Wizards 16-4 to close the third quarter. Jones scored the last six points of that stretch, including consecutive layups in the final minute to make it 87-74.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Bulls: vs. Orlando on Friday.
\nWizards: vs. Miami on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Leonard Miller scored a career-high 26 points and matched his career best with 11 rebounds, helping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,1585,204,14489,6,6140,6277,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-707107","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-collin-sexton","14":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","15":"tag-leonard-miller","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-patrick-williams","18":"tag-tre-jones","19":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116378422088200714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707107","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=707107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}