{"id":294892,"date":"2025-11-20T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294892\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:25:11","slug":"vucevics-buzzer-beating-3-gives-bulls-win-over-the-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294892\/","title":{"rendered":"Vucevic&#8217;s buzzer-beating 3 gives Bulls win over the Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Nikola Vucevic hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer and the Chicago Bulls held off a furious comeback attempt by the Portland Trail Blazers for a 122-121 victory Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic finished with 27 points and Coby White had 25 off the bench for the Bulls, who led by 21 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Deni Avdija\u2019s 3-pointer tied it for the Blazers at 116 and Donovan Clingan&#8217;s layup put the Blazers in front with 47 seconds left. Clingan added a free throw to cap a 31-7 run and give Portland a 119-116 lead.<\/p>\n<p>White&#8217;s 3-pointer with 9.1 seconds pulled the Bulls within 120-119. After Jerami Grant hit the second of two free throws, White popped the ball out to Vucevic on the perimeter for the game-winner.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VUCEVIC WINS IT FOR THE BULLS \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toXPX1BAwz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/toXPX1BAwz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1991379576501440833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grant finished with 33 points for the slumping Blazers, who have lost four straight and six of the last seven.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls were coming off a 130-127 victory over the Nuggets that ended a five-game losing streak. White sat out that game after returning the night before against Utah from a calf injury that had kept him out the first 11 games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers were playing the second of a back-to-back after falling 127-110 to the visiting Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jrue Holiday missed a third straight game with a calf injury and the Blazers were also without Shaedon Sharpe because of right calf soreness. Grant, who missed Tuesday\u2019s game with an illness, started.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers led for most of the first quarter before the Bulls pulled in front 33-31 early in the second on White\u2019s 26-foot running jumper. Chicago led 62-58 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Bulls: Host the Miami Heat on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Trail Blazers: Visit the Warriors on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Nikola Vucevic hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer and the Chicago Bulls held off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-294892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294892","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=294892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}