BOSTON — Jayson Tatum had 36 points and 12 rebounds, including some late free throws, to help the Boston Celtics hold on for a 123-119 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night.
Malcolm Brogdon added 25 points on 9-of-10 shooting and Jaylen Brown scored 16 points for the Celtics, who have won two of three.
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It was the eighth straight game this season that Tatum has scored 20 or more points. He also set career highs for free-throw attempts and makes, going 17 of 20. But he said he was proudest of how the Celtcis finished the game after failing to do so in two recent overtime losses to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
“That’s something that we’ve talked about a lot recently,” Tatum said. “We’ve had some tough losses. ... That’s the sign of good team and we talked about that at shoot around. And to go out and do it on the same night shows our growth.”
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DeMar DeRozan had a season-high 46 points for the Bulls. Nikola Vučević added 24 points and 12 rebounds and Zach LaVine finished with 16 points. The Bulls were denied its first three-game winning streak of the season.
“I just felt like there was too many things we had control over that we needed to execute better and we didn’t,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. “That hurt us tonight.”
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The Celtics took a 93-87 lead into the fourth quarter and increased it to 105-91 with just more than seven minutes to play. A 3-pointer by Vučević capped a 12-4 run to help the Bulls cut their deficit to 109-103.
Brogdon scored on a driving layup, was fouled and completed the three-point play to briefly give the Celtics some breathing room.
The Bulls stayed close, and another Vučević 3 trimmed it to 114-110, followed by a miss by Al Horford.
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DeRozan was fouled by Derrick White and hit two free throws. White made a 3 from the wing with 1 minutes, 6 seconds remaining on the Celtics’ next possession.
Vučević was good again from 3 on the Bulls’ next trip to make it 117-115. Horford missed a corner 3, but Tatum pulled down the rebound and was fouled by LaVine.
Tatum made only one of his free-throw attempts, giving the ball back to the Bulls. Tatum got a steal, but LaVine picked off his outlet pass. Patrick Williams misfired and it was gathered and tossed to Tatum, who was fouled.
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This time he made both free-throw attempts, and the Celtics closed it out at the foul line.
Bulls: Reserve center Andre Drummond sat for the fourth straight game with a sprained right shoulder. ... The Bulls had 15 bench points after scoring 49 in a win Wednesday against the Charlotte Hornets. ... Ayo Dosunmu finished with 11 points, going 5 of 8 from the field. He entered the night shooting 90% (27 of 30), including 10 of 10 from beyond the arc, in four games against the Celtics.
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Celtics: They led 63-57 at the half, outscoring the Bulls 37-26 in the second quarter. ... New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick sat with Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens in his suite.
Brogdon became the first Celtics guard to score 25 points or more on 90% shooting off the bench since the start of the 3-point era (1980).
He said playing a role in which he’s not one of the top-three scoring options has allowed him to have much fresher legs late in games. Having dynamic scorers in Tatum and Brown to distribute also has made those situations easier this season, he said.
“I’m comfortable finishing games. I’ve been doing it my whole career,” Brogdon said.
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The Celtics ended the Bulls’ recent clampdown on the defensive end and avoided becoming the third consecutive opponent the Bulls had held below the century mark.
The Bulls dominated under the basket in their first meeting with the Celtics last month, holding a 12-point scoring edge in the paint on the way to a 20-point victory at the United Center.
The Celtics used much of the same blueprint Friday, outscoring the Bulls 52-34 in the paint. The Celtics bench contributed 41 points.
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