{"id":583741,"date":"2026-02-12T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/583741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:38:09","slug":"chicago-bulls-fall-to-boston-celtics-124-105-for-6th-loss-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/583741\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls fall to Boston Celtics 124-105 for 6th loss in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Payton Pritchard scored 26 points and the Boston Celtics rolled past the Chicago Bulls 124-105 on Wednesday night in the final game for both teams before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown added 24 points. Former Bull Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds for the Celtics, who have won six of their last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics carried a 28-point into halftime, taking advantage of a Bulls team that was missing several top contributors. The Celtics\u2019 lead grew to as high as 33 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Dillingham had 16 points and seven assists to pace the Bulls (24-31), who have lost six straight and nine of 10. Matas Buzelis added 15 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010devi\u0107 and the Bulls\u2019 Anfernee Simons played against their former teams for the first time since being swapped in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/02\/03\/chicago-bulls-trade-nikola-vucevic-acquire-jaden-ivey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade-deadline deal<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>It was Vu\u010devi\u0107\u2019s second double-double in three games with the Celtics. Simons finished with seven points. It marked his first time being under 15 in his four starts for the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls played without Isaac Okoro (knee), who joined what was already a lengthy injury list. Josh Giddey has been out since Jan. 28 when he aggravated a hamstring injury. Tre Jones also has been dealing with a hamstring issue that has kept him sidelined since Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bulls:<\/strong> vs. Toronto Raptors on Feb. 19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Celtics:<\/strong> At Golden State Warriors on Feb. 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 Payton Pritchard scored 26 points and the Boston Celtics rolled past the Chicago Bulls 124-105 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":583742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[35027,3125,960,3127,5386,1818,20510,17461,40045,11435,27845,24747],"class_list":["post-583741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-anfernee-simons","tag-boston-celtics","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-isaac-okoro","tag-josh-giddey","tag-matas-buzelis","tag-nikola-vucevic","tag-rob-dillingham","tag-tre-jones"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583741","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=583741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}