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Bulls rally to shock Rockets
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THE Chicago Bulls rallied from a 14-point third-quarter deficit to shock the Houston Rockets 103-100 on Thursday and boost their NBA playoff hopes.
Nikola Mirotic drained a go-ahead three-pointer with less than three minutes to play and Houston’s Trevor Ariza saw an attempted game-tying three-pointer fail at the buzzer.
Mirotic scored a game-high 28 points. His three-pointer with 2:56 remaining put the Bulls up 92-91 and was followed by a dunk from Jimmy Butler and a three-pointer from E’Twaun Moore that stretched Chicago’s lead to 97-91 with 1:30 remaining.
The Bulls now trail Indiana by one game for the eighth and last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The Pacers fell 94-114 to the Orlando Magic in Indianapolis, and Chicago holds the tiebreaker over Indiana.
In Cleveland, LeBron James scored 24 points to move into 12th place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list as the Cavaliers thumped the Brooklyn Nets 107-87. The Cavaliers moved 2 1/2 games ahead of the Toronto Raptors atop the Eastern Conference.
Al-Farouq Aminu scored a career-high 28 points and pulled down nine rebounds as the Trail Blazers rallied for a 116-109 victory over the Boston Celtics in Portland.
The win moved the Trail Blazers to within 1 1/2 games of the Western Conference’s fifth-place Memphis Grizzlies with six games to play in the regular season.
Also, Kevin Durant scored 31 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a narrow 119-117 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.
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