{"id":240607,"date":"2025-10-26T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240607\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:17:09","slug":"bulls-beat-the-cold-shooting-magic-110-98-for-a-2-0-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240607\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls beat the cold-shooting Magic 110-98 for a 2-0 start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Josh Giddey had 21 points and eight rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Orlando Magic 110-98 on Saturday night for a 2-0 start.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Smith added 16 points for the Bulls, one of their four players off the bench in double figures. Ayo Dosunmu and Nikola Vucevic each finished with 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Banchero scored 24 points for the Magic, who were a woeful 3 for 24 (12.5%) from 3-point range. Orlando shot 39% overall and fell to 1-2.<\/p>\n<p>Banchero also grabbed 10 rebounds but shot just 7 for 21. Anthony Black added 19 points and Franz Wagner had 17 for the Magic.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls led 83-80 after three quarters before Dosunmu went 3 for 3 from 3-point range in the fourth. Smith followed one of Dosunmu\u2019s 3s with one of his own as Chicago pushed a three-point lead to 94-85 and never was really threatened again.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Bulls: Host Atlanta on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Magic: Visit Philadelphia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Josh Giddey had 21 points and eight rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[6643,49,48,20653,459,16514,15716,24783,82,13272],"class_list":["post-240607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-associated-press","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fl","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-professional-basketball","tag-sports","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}