INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Pascal Siakam sank a 14-foot jumper with a second left to give the Indiana Pacers a 103-101 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Siakam led the Pacers with 24 points and nine rebounds, while Bennedict Mathurin scored 19. Isaiah Jackson had 14 points and 11 rebounds off the bench.<\/p>\n
Josh Giddey finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Bulls. Tre Jones also scored 17, and Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 added 16 points and eight boards.<\/p>\n
The Bulls started the final quarter with a 15-2 spurt to take a 95-88 lead with just under 5 1\/2 minutes left.<\/p>\n
Trailing 97-90, the Pacers went on an 8-0 run to grab the lead when T.J. McConnell hit a pull-up jumper with 2:19 remaining.<\/p>\n
After the Bulls briefly regained the lead at 99-98 on two free throws by Vu\u010devi\u0107, the Pacers were helped when a goaltending call on Jay Huff was overturned. After a basket by Siakam, Andrew Nembhard hit one of two free throws to give Indiana a 101-99 advantage with 10.7 seconds left. Jones scored on a drive to tie it 101-all with 7.5 seconds to go when the Pacers were called for goaltending.<\/p>\n
The Pacers shot 49% in the first half and took a 61-54 halftime lead. After the Bulls scored the first seven points of the third quarter to tie it, the Pacers regained an 86-80 lead heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n
Huff scored Indiana\u2019s first 14 points, hitting all five shots, to give the Pacers a 14-9 lead. He didn\u2019t score again, but finished with eight rebounds and four blocks.<\/p>\n
Nembhard, who had 14 points, returned after missing Friday night\u2019s game against Washington with a bruised right quadriceps.<\/p>\n
The Bulls were without Coby White, averaging 24.2 points in five games this season, because of a right calf strain. Chicago coach Billy Donovan said this was the last time White will have management limitations in a back-to-back situation.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Bulls:<\/strong> Play at Orlando on Monday night.<\/p>\n Pacers:<\/strong> Host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 Pascal Siakam sank a 14-foot jumper with a second left to give the Indiana Pacers a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":414313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,3127,5386,1818,1267,17461,6326,11435,6322],"class_list":{"0":"post-414312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-josh-giddey","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-nikola-vucevic","16":"tag-pascal-siakam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115636733336544570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}