Bulls 95-92 Celtics (21 Mar, 1999) Box Score

Chicago Bulls

8-17, 4-8 away

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
CHI	21	19	29	14	12	95
BOS	21	24	15	23	9	92

Boston Celtics

8-15, 5-3 home

Chicago Bulls

starters
Ron HarperR. Harper
Dickey SimpkinsD. Simpkins
Toni KukocT. Kukoc
Brent BarryB. Barry
Randy BrownR. Brown
bench
Mark BryantM. Bryant
Kornel DavidK. David
Keith BoothK. Booth
Bill WenningtonB. Wennington
Rusty LaRueR. LaRue
Cory CarrC. Carr
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
43	4-11	0-0	5-5	6	5	11	0	1	0	3	5	0	13
44	9-26	0-3	2-3	2	6	8	5	0	0	6	1	0	20
41	4-13	2-7	10-10	2	5	7	2	0	0	1	2	0	20
44	6-18	0-2	4-7	3	8	11	8	4	0	3	6	0	16
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
37	8-12	0-0	2-4	2	4	6	1	0	0	0	5	0	18
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
17	2-2	0-0	2-3	1	4	5	0	1	0	1	2	0	6
12	1-3	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	4	0	2
8	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	0
15	0-4	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	1	3	1	1	1	0	0
	34-91	2-12	25-32	17	35	52	18	9	2	16	30		95
	37.4%	16.7%	78.1%

Boston Celtics

starters
Antoine WalkerA. Walker
Paul PierceP. Pierce
Vitaly PotapenkoV. Potapenko
Kenny AndersonK. Anderson
Ron MercerR. Mercer
bench
Bruce BowenB. Bowen
Tony BattieT. Battie
Eric RileyE. Riley
Dana BarrosD. Barros
Greg MinorG. Minor
Marlon GarnettM. Garnett
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
43	2-15	1-4	1-4	4	6	10	0	3	0	5	5	0	6
43	3-11	2-5	0-2	4	4	8	3	3	2	1	2	0	8
28	3-6	0-0	1-2	1	3	4	1	1	0	2	4	0	7
28	6-9	0-1	7-10	0	3	3	7	1	0	2	6	0	19
41	11-23	0-2	4-4	1	4	5	3	0	0	3	2	0	26
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
7	0-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
33	2-5	0-0	6-8	1	10	11	1	1	7	3	2	0	10
2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	5-13	2-5	0-0	0	1	1	6	0	0	1	6	0	12
10	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	4
6	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	34-87	5-17	19-30	15	34	49	22	9	9	17	29		92
	39.1%	29.4%	63.3%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

CHI leads 1-0

Bulls
95
Celtics
92

Game 1

21/3

Bulls
81
Celtics
87

Game 2

12/4

Celtics
100
Bulls
71

Game 3

24/4

TD Garden

8:00 PM, 21 March 1999

Boston, MA

Attendance: 18,624

Referees:
Jack Nies
Nolan Fine
Bill Kennedy

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Cleveland	25	4	.862	-	W4
Milwaukee	15	12	.556	9	W1
Indiana	14	15	.483	11	W4
Chicago	13	16	.448	12	L1
Detroit	12	17	.414	13	W1

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Boston	22	6	.786	-	W1
New York	18	10	.643	4	W3
Brooklyn	11	17	.393	11	L1
Philadelphia	9	17	.346	12	L1
Toronto	7	22	.241	15.5	L7

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CHI leads 1-0

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