{"id":255283,"date":"2025-11-01T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:56:11","slug":"josh-giddey-stars-as-chicago-bulls-beat-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255283\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Giddey stars as Chicago Bulls beat New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian NBA star Josh Giddey<\/a> scored a career-high 32 points with 10 rebounds and nine assists, Nikola Vucevic added 26 points, and the Chicago Bulls beat the New York Knicks 135-125 on Saturday (AEDT) to stay undefeated and get out to their best start in nearly three decades.<\/p>\n

Ayo Dosunmu came off the bench to score 22 points with nine assists for the Bulls, who improved to 5-0 and are off to their best start since the 1996-97 season when they opened 12-0 and went on to win the NBA<\/a> Championship.<\/p>\n

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Jalen Brunson scored 29 points and OG Anunoby had 26 to help power New York\u2019s second-half comeback attempt. The Knicks cut Chicago’s lead to two points midway through the fourth quarter after trailing by 22 late in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Karl-Anthony Towns added 22 points and 10 rebounds despite playing with a right quad strain and landing hard on his hip in the third quarter. Mikal Bridges scored 23 points in the NBA Cup group play opener for both teams.<\/p>\n

\"Josh<\/p>\n

Josh Giddey in action against the New York Knicks.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Both teams relied heavily on three-pointers, with Chicago hitting 17 of 37 and New York converting 18 of 45. The Bulls outshot the Knicks overall from the floor, 53.6 per cent to 49.5 per cent.<\/p>\n

The Bulls opened a 72-53 lead at the half, penetrating with crisp passing plays.<\/p>\n

The Knicks went on a 23-9 run to start the third quarter and closed to 115-113 on Anunoby’s three with 5:43 left in the fourth quarter before Vucevic and Giddey connected on key possessions to ice it.<\/p>\n

Giddey was asked by reporters post-match what had allowed him to become a more complete player, particularly off the ball.<\/p>\n

“Confidence, [and] being in a place where I’m wanted,” the 23-year-old said.<\/p>\n

“I love being here \u2026 That’s what you need as a player.<\/p>\n

“I love when we’ve got other handlers … Obviously the situation was different in OKC [at Oklahoma City Thunder]; they’ve got the best player in the world. You want the ball in his hands. It’s just different situations.<\/p>\n

“I love the guys I get to play with every night.”<\/p>\n

ESPN basketball reporter Olgun Uluc described Giddey’s performance as “unbelievably impressive”.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Robinson returned to the Knicks’ starting line-up after missing New York’s first four games with a left ankle injury and had 11 rebounds. Guerschon Yabusele returned after sitting out one game with a sprained left knee.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Knicks and Bulls: The teams meet again, on Monday (AEDT) in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian NBA star Josh Giddey scored a career-high 32 points with 10 rebounds and nine assists, Nikola Vucevic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}