Victor Wembanyama scored 18 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Chicago Bulls 121-117 on Monday night for their third consecutive win.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama also grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked five shots. The 7-foot-3 center made six 3-pointers and went 11 for 19 from the field in San Antonio’s first win at Chicago since March 17, 2021.<\/p>\n
He became the first player in NBA history with at least 35 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, five blocked shots and five 3-pointers in a game.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox scored 21 points for the Spurs in his second game of the season. Stephon Castle had 19 points and 11 assists, and Luke Kornet finished with 16 points.<\/p>\n
Chicago dropped to 5-1 at home. It has lost four of five overall.<\/p>\n
The Bulls played without guard Josh Giddey, who was sidelined by a right ankle injury. Kevin Huerter stepped into the starting lineup and finished with 23 points.<\/p>\n
Chicago had a 104-91 lead before Wembanyama put together a personal 10-0 run. He made a fadeaway jumper and a 3-pointer to get San Antonio within three with 7:05 left.<\/p>\n
The Spurs went ahead to stay with a late 10-0 run. Wembanyama made two big 3s, and Castle’s two foul shots made it 119-114 with 18 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
The Bulls shot 28% (7 for 25) from the field in the fourth, compared to 43.5% (10 for 23) for the Spurs.<\/p>\n
Ayo Dosunmu and Tre Jones each scored 20 points for Chicago. Jalen Smith had 11 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Bulls used a 10-2 run to open a 95-85 lead with 1:15 left in the third quarter. Huerter’s 3-pointer gave the Bulls a 98-89 lead going into the final period.<\/p>\n
Spurs: Host Golden State on Wednesday night in the first of two consecutive home games against the Warriors.<\/p>\n
Bulls: At the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama scored 18 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, and the San Antonio Spurs beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,7329,28138,58423,355,6999,2116,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-284576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-deaaron-fox","11":"tag-kevin-huerter","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}