The game between the Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls will take place at Barclays Center on Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The Brooklyn Nets will welcome the Chicago Bulls to Barclays Center for an NBA game on Thursday. The Nets lost 112-116 in their last game over the Suns. Thomas rallied the Nets mostly from the free-throw line, and his intentional miss with 4.1 seconds remaining left the Suns with a 114-112 lead. He then fouled Ayton, who finished it off with two free throws after going 14 for 18 from the field and grabbing 15 rebounds.
Nic Claxton and T.J. Warren had 17 points each for the Nets, who lost on back-to-back nights after trading Kyrie Irving and fell to 5-9 without the injured Kevin Durant. They opted not to play Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith, the players they acquired from Dallas in the trade for Irving.
Ben Simmons had two points and six assists after missing five games with left knee soreness. Booker scored six points and set up Ayton for another basket during that stretch. “That’s all I want right there is just competition and being back out there with the band and just feeling that energy, feeling that presence,” Booker said. “The team has it rolling right now, so just insert myself in a way that wasn’t disruptive and try to keep the flow that they have.”
The Chicago Bulls on the other hand lost 104-89 against the Grizzlies in their last game. Nikola Vucevic had 28 points and 17 rebounds for the Bulls, whose three-game winning streak ended. Chicago played without leading scorer DeMar DeRozan because of right hip soreness. Zach LaVine scored 24 points for Chicago and Ayo Dosunmu added 14 points and six assists.
But poor shooting hindered the Bulls at the start of the game and in the final period. Chicago was 5 of 19 from the field in the fourth, including making only one of its 10 3-point attempts. “I thought we did some good things in the fourth quarter,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said. “And I didn’t think we shot the ball particularly well from the 3 or from the field. … I think we lost a little bit of rhythm.”
The Bulls trailed 49-39 at halftime, plagued by 13 turnovers and 30% shooting, including 3 of 16 from 3-point range. But Chicago got rolling in the third behind Vucevic, who had 14 points in the quarter, and LaVine, who contributed 12. The Bulls led 75-72 entering the fourth. “I think execution-wise, we came down and weren’t really organized,” LaVine said. “We had a lot of opportunities to make shots. We just didn’t knock them down. It was a low-scoring game on both ends. We just didn’t get enough stops.”
Brooklyn Nets: Royce O’Neale, Joe Harris, Nic Claxton, Cam Thomas, Ben Simmons
Chicago Bulls: Patrick Williams, Alex Caruso, Nikola Vucevic, Zach LaVine, Ayo Dosunmu
Brooklyn Nets: T.J. Warren, Day’Ron Sharpe, Seth Curry, Kevin Durant, Yuta Watanabe
Chicago Bulls: Alex Caruso, Patrick Williams, DeMar DeRozan, Javonte Green, Lonzo Ball
The game between the Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls will take place at Barclays Center on Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls will be telecast live on TNT.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | TNT. | February 9 (7:30 PM ET) |
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