{"id":717116,"date":"2026-04-10T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/717116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:29:14","slug":"leonard-millers-career-night-fuels-2nd-win-in-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/717116\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Miller&#8217;s career night fuels 2nd win in row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Leonard Miller scored a career-high 26 points and matched his career best with 11 rebounds, helping the Chicago Bulls ease to a 119-108 victory over the Washington Wizards on Thursday night to sweep a two-game set.<\/p>\n<p>Tre Jones scored 31 points and Collin Sexton added 27 for the Bulls, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/04\/07\/chicago-bulls-washington-wizards-front-office-shake-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won 129-98<\/a> at Washington on Tuesday night to snap a seven-game skid. The Bulls won consecutive games for the first time since Jan. 22-24; they are 8-27 since then.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, Jones and Sexton combined to shoot 65.3% (32 of 49) as the Bulls (31-49) pulled even with Milwaukee for 11th place in the Eastern Conference and the best record among teams eliminated from postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p>Bulls center Guerschon Yabusele exited early in the third quarter with a sprained left shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Will Riley scored 23 points to lead the Wizards, who had 10 players sidelined by injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Reese added 16 points and 15 rebounds for the NBA-worst Wizards, who have lost 24 of 25 to sink to 17-63 with two games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls took control by outscoring the Wizards 16-4 to close the third quarter. Jones scored the last six points of that stretch, including consecutive layups in the final minute to make it 87-74.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bulls:<\/strong> vs. Orlando on Friday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wizards:<\/strong> vs. Miami on Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Leonard Miller scored a career-high 26 points and matched his career best with 11 rebounds, helping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":717117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,3127,94161,22724,5386,1818,247817,55053,24747,3117],"class_list":["post-717116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-collin-sexton","tag-guerschon-yabusele","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-leonard-miller","tag-patrick-williams","tag-tre-jones","tag-washington-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116378059773639255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717116","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=717116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}