The Washington Wizards had their NBA Summer League record blemished for the first time Tuesday in a 99-87 loss to the Chicago Bulls at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
The undermanned Wiz started the game off strong, racing to a 9-0 lead against a Bulls squad on the second night of a back-to-back. With no AJ Dybantsa, Will Riley, or Tre Johnson, it was Chris Livingston who picked up the scoring slack throughout the night.<\/p>\n
The Kentucky alum led Washington with seven points, giving his team a 21-15 lead in a sloppy first quarter that featured 13 fouls and 13 turnovers. Juju Reese also brought some energy with his board work with 4 points and 4 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Livingston stayed hot with five quick points to start the second quarter to extend the lead back up to nine. But the Wizards allowed the Bulls to get back in with the three-ball. Chicago connected on four triples and a three-point free throw from Caleb Wilson to overtake Washington 37-36 at the half.<\/p>\n
The third quarter saw Felix Okpara flash some of his potential. He rolled his way to the rim for a couple of dunks and even showed off a midrange jumper. He\u2019ll become an instant lob threat for Trae Young if he\u2019s able to scratch out a few minutes in Brian Keefe\u2019s rotation.<\/p>\n
An Okpara free throw for two points tied the game at 57. That marked the beginning of the end for the Wizards, as turnovers and shoddy transition defense allowed the bulls to go on a 23-6 run extending to the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Washington had almost as many turnovers (6) as shot attempts (7) during that stretch, as Chicago cruised to the 12-point victory.<\/p>\n
Livingston paced the Wizards with 21 points scored in a variety of ways. He drained a couple of threes, finished several strong drives to the rim, and even showed off some counter moves when the defense cut him off in the lane.<\/p>\n
Okpara finished with 12 points, four rebounds, and a block. Kadary Richmond and Seth Trimble combined for 24 points, but only shot 6-for-19 from the field.<\/p>\n
The Wizards have a quick turnaround with a matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night on the same floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards had their NBA Summer League record blemished for the first time Tuesday in a 99-87…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,14947,3892,683],"class_list":["post-786896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washington-wizards-recaps","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116921704378709064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786896","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=786896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}