Kemba Walker was the pick of the Hornets players with 18 points.
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He was a game-time decision for the NY game, and the Bulls ultimately chose to play it safe.
Rose is averaging 14.4 points per game this season, and considering he has apparently been dealing with this hamstring thing for a while and also worrying about his fresh orbital fracture from the preseason, the PG is playing quite well, though shooting poorly.
Jimmy Butler was unstoppable in the second half against Toronto. It will be interesting to see how many minutes coach Fred Hoiberg gives Portis moving forward as the team becomes healthy.
Pau Gasol had his 17th double-double of the season with 19 points and 13 rebounds as Chicago beat Toronto for the seventh straight time.
Victor Oladipo scored 20 points for the Magic, who had won two straight and six of eight.
“We had some shots that didn’t go in to start the fourth quarter and I thought we got discouraged and we let our energy get turned around the other way and it just kind of snowballed from there”, Knicks coach Derek Fisher said.
Bulls: The Bulls are 17-3 when outrebounding their opponent….
This is the second consecutive Kia NBA Rookie of the Month award for Porzingis, who ranked second among East rookies in scoring (12.6 ppg) and rebounding (6.4 rpg) and first among all rookies in blocked shots (2.20 bpg).
Dallas had 10 points in the first quarter – its low for any period this season – and shot 36 percent for the game, compared to 56 percent for Miami.
The Raptors appeared in control late holding a 105-100 lead with 2:57 to go in the game, but Butler was just unstoppable, making a three-pointer to cut it down to two points. “A really, really good individual performance”.
But the Knicks slowly chipped away at the deficit. “The way they were pressuring us in the first half, we couldn’t get the ball reversed or swung so we just put the ball in Jimmy’s hands”.
When asked about a timetable for Noah’s return, Hoiberg said it will depend on what the doctors say Monday.
The 40 points scored in the second half was the most by a player in a single game all season.
The two teams were tied at 29 on Sunday after the first quarter before the Raptors pulled well ahead in the second.
Yesterday the Bulls defeated the New York Knicks and picked up their 19th win of the season, according to Bulls’ website. Thomas finished with 11 points.
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With three of their next five games against teams with below. Butler’s streak of 40 games with at least one steal is the longest active streak in the National Basketball Association, and the longest of Butler’s career.
