Brooklyn Nets at Chicago Bulls

· National Basketball Association

Brooklyn Nets

5-7, 2-5 Away

Final
117 - 111

Chicago Bulls

4-9, 2-4 Home

Nets beat Bulls 117-111 without Irving

Dinwiddie scored 24 points and the Nets beat the Chicago Bulls 117-111 without Irving.

Irving entered Saturday sixth in the NBA with 28.5 points per game but sat with a right shoulder injury. Brooklyn was just fine without the All-Star guard as Dinwiddie stepped into the starting lineup.

“I’m not Kyrie, you know what I mean?” Dinwiddie said. “I just tried to gauge what needed to be done to win the game.”

Zach LaVine scored 36 points, but Chicago shot 35.2% from the field, 23.1% from 3-point range and committed 20 turnovers.

Joe Harris had 22 points and eight assists for Brooklyn, which snapped a three-game skid. The short-handed Nets are also without Caris LeVert, who’s recovering from right thumb surgery.

The lead changed hands five times in the fourth, and Brooklyn pulled ahead for good on Dinwiddie’s dunk with 8:01 remaining. Dinwiddie scored 20 points in the fourth alone.

“He took over,” Atkinson said.

Chicago briefly got within three points with just under 3 minutes left, and Lauri Markkanen hit a fading 3-pointer to make it 113-111 with 8.8 seconds remaining. But Harris made two free throws and the Bulls never got the ball with a chance to tie it.

Wendell Carter Jr. added 18 points and 14 rebounds for the Bulls, who trailed by double digits early before using a 23-5 run in the second quarter to take the lead.

Chicago led from then until the fourth quarter but allowed 43 points in the final period.

“They just wanted it more than us,” LaVine said. “They made more plays to close out the third quarter and start the fourth.”

TIP-INS

Nets: Atkinson said Irving’s status for Monday’s game against Indiana is unclear. … Six Nets scored in double figures.

Bulls: Coach Jim Boylen said he expects F Otto Porter Jr.’s return from a left foot sprain to be a matter of weeks, rather than months. He doesn’t think Porter will need surgery. “Otto’s is a slow, meticulous process,” Boylen said.

BRICK CITY

Brooklyn won despite shooting worse than 25% from 3-point range for the second straight game. The Nets shot 23.3% from beyond the arc after making just 21.1% at Denver on Thursday.

Dinwiddie missed all four of his 3-point attempts.

“I’ve been broke from 3 this year, so (I’m) probably dragging our average down,” Dinwiddie said.

HEADED HOME

The Nets finished their five-game road trip on a high note. Brooklyn had lost three of four to start the stretch and blew a 12-point halftime lead in Denver on Thursday.

“Last game of the road trip, we all know how difficult those games are,” Atkinson said. “We avoided that super bad stretch that we’ve had in the past two or three games, where we just have a train wreck of an eight minutes or a quarter that doesn’t go right.”

Nets: Return home to face Indiana on Monday.

Bulls: Host Milwaukee on Monday in the second of a four-game homestand.

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Regular Season Series

BKN leads series 1-0

Recent Plays

4th 0.0	End of Game	117 - 111
4th 0.0	End of the 4th Quarter	117 - 111
4th 0.3	Garrett Temple makes free throw 2 of 2	117 - 111
4th 0.3	Garrett Temple makes free throw 1 of 2	116 - 111
4th 0.3	Tomas Satoransky personal foul	115 - 111

Statistics

BKN		CHI
40-88	FG	32-91
45	Field Goal %	35
10-43	3PT	9-39
23	Three Point %	23
27-31	FT	38-41
87	Free Throw %	93
40	Rebounds	56
5	Offensive Rebounds	17
35	Defensive Rebounds	39
30	Assists	15
10	Steals	8
9	Blocks	2
15	Turnovers	19
0	Team Turnovers	1
15	Total Turnovers	20
0	Technical Fouls	0
0	Total Technical Fouls	0
0	Flagrant Fouls	0
24	Points Conceded Off Turnovers	18
16	Fast Break Points	11
56	Points in Paint	36
30	Fouls	30
13	Largest Lead	11

Chicago Bulls Injuries

NAME, POS	STATUS	DATE
Patrick Williams, F	Day-To-Day	Mar 12
Jalen Smith, F	Day-To-Day	Mar 12
Guerschon Yabusele, F	Day-To-Day	Mar 12
Matas Buzelis, F	Day-To-Day	Mar 11
Josh Giddey, G	Day-To-Day	Mar 11