Ayo Dosunmu scored a season-high 29 points and added nine assists and eight rebounds on Saturday to help the visiting Chicago Bulls post a 125-118 victory over the Miami Heat.
Matas Buzelis added 21 points and Isaac Okoro chipped in 20 for the Bulls, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Patrick Williams had 15 points, while Jevon Carter scored 11 for Chicago.
Pelle Larsson led Miami with 22 points, Bam Adebayo finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 20 off the bench. Andrew Wiggins scored 17 and Myron Gardner had 12 points and 11 boards for the Heat, who will wrap a rare three-game set in four days against the Bulls at home on Sunday. Miami won 116-113 at home on Thursday.
The Heat tied the game at 116 on Wiggins’ trey with 1:20 remaining. Buzelis’ layup then gave Chicago a two-point lead, before he tacked on with a 3-pointer to give the Bulls a 121-116 edge with 39 seconds left.
After Adebayo and Larsson missed 3-pointers, Buzelis knocked down two free throws to give the Bulls a seven-point cushion, sealing the road win.
After Miami pushed its seven-point halftime lead to 11, Chicago answered with a 10-0 run, pulling within a point on Dosunmu’s 3-pointer with nine minutes left in the third.
Later in the third, Okoro and Carter’s back-to-back triples gave the Bulls an 81-80 edge.
Chicago finished the third on a 10-2 run, taking a 91-84 edge into the final stanza.
Okoro split a pair of free throws to give the Bulls a 97-88 lead, before Adebayo scored seven in a row to cut the deficit to two.
Buzelis’ layup gave the Bulls a 106-99 edge with 4:58 remaining, but Adebayo’s layup began a 7-0 run that knotted the score at 106 with 3:37 left.
Chicago opened the game on a 12-3 run, including a pair of Williams triples, forcing a Miami timeout.
Dru Smith’s three-point play finished the opening quarter’s scoring, pulling the Heat within six entering the second.
Miami grabbed the lead on Gardner’s triple, pulling the visitors ahead by a point with 7:52 left in the first half.
Jaquez scored six points in Miami’s 8-0 run as the Heat took a 56-47 lead with 3:21 remaining in the second quarter.
Miami led 63-56 at halftime, with Jaquez’s 14 first-half points pacing both teams. Buzelis’ 10 points led the Bulls in the first half
–Field Level Media
