Denver Nuggets @ Chicago Bulls

Preseason

2-5, 1-4 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Nuggets DEN	28	20	18	23	89
Bulls CHI	21	15	36	22	94

Chicago BullsBullsCHI

8-0, 5-0 Home

Denver Nuggets

starters
Anthony RandolphA. Randolph#15
JJ HicksonJ. Hickson#7
JaVale McGeeJ. McGee#34
Randy FoyeR. Foye#4
Ty LawsonT. Lawson#3
bench
Darrell ArthurD. Arthur#00
Quincy MillerQ. Miller#30
Damion JamesD. James#5
Timofey MozgovT. Mozgov#25
Andre MillerA. Miller#24
Nate RobinsonN. Robinson#10
Jordan HamiltonJ. Hamilton#1
Evan FournierE. Fournier#94
Danilo GallinariD. Gallinari#8
Wilson ChandlerW. Chandler#21
Kenneth FariedK. Faried#35
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
30	15	7-10	0-0	1-4	6	0	1	1	1	1	5	5	-12
23	14	6-11	0-1	2-3	6	3	0	1	1	1	5	5	+4
25	15	6-14	0-0	3-7	8	2	1	0	0	3	5	4	-6
18	2	1-5	0-2	0-0	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	-12
16	11	5-7	0-1	1-2	3	2	1	1	1	0	3	1	+4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
17	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	6	0	0	2	0	1	5	1	-3
16	0	0-3	0-1	0-0	2	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	+8
8	6	1-2	0-0	4-4	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	-5
16	2	1-3	0-0	0-0	6	0	4	0	0	0	6	4	-2
17	6	3-9	0-0	0-0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	3	0
25	0	0-5	0-3	0-0	3	5	4	0	0	0	3	2	-7
11	4	2-4	0-1	0-0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	+2
18	10	5-8	0-0	0-0	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	2	+4
DNP-LEFT ACL
DNP-LEFT HAMSTRING STRAIN
DNP-RIGHT HAMSTRING
	89	39-84	0-9	11-20	47	18	17	7	3	7	40	29
		46%	0%	55%

Chicago Bulls

starters
Carlos BoozerC. Boozer#5
Luol DengL. Deng#9
Jimmy Butler IIIJ. Butler III#21
Nazr MohammedN. Mohammed#48
Derrick RoseD. Rose#1
bench
Erik Jay MurphyE. Murphy#31
Taj GibsonT. Gibson#22
Tony SnellT. Snell#20
Mike DunleavyM. Dunleavy#34
Marquis TeagueM. Teague#25
D.J. WhiteD.J. White#6
Joakim NoahJ. Noah#13
Dexter PittmanD. Pittman#45
Mike JamesM. James#8
Kirk HinrichK. Hinrich#12
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	24	8-17	0-0	8-12	10	2	3	2	1	3	7	5	+11
34	23	7-16	1-4	8-9	12	3	3	2	0	5	7	3	+16
37	13	4-11	0-3	5-9	7	2	1	2	1	2	5	0	+15
20	5	2-7	0-0	1-2	7	0	1	0	0	3	4	3	+13
33	15	5-15	0-4	5-7	4	8	1	2	0	0	4	1	+9
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
5	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	1	-8
27	10	5-7	0-0	0-0	8	3	1	0	1	3	5	6	-1
10	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	-15
22	2	1-8	0-4	0-0	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	2	-11
15	2	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	-4
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-RIGHT GROIN STRAIN
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-CONCUSSION
	94	33-87	1-18	27-39	54	21	14	9	4	16	38	21
		38%	6%	69%

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

Matchups

DEN

Season tied

1-1

CHI

Game 1•@ DEN

Final

Game 2•@ CHI

Final

117

Game Information

Chicago, IL

Referee:Scott Wall

Referee:Michael Smith

Referee:Nick Buchert

Western Conference

Northwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Oklahoma City	35	8	.814	-	L1
Denver	29	14	.674	6	L1
Minnesota	27	16	.628	8	L2
Portland	22	22	.500	13.5	W3
Utah	14	28	.333	20.5	L3

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	30	10	.750	-	W2
Cleveland	24	19	.558	7.5	W2
Chicago	20	22	.476	11	W1
Milwaukee	17	24	.415	13.5	L3
Indiana	10	33	.233	21.5	L1

NBA News

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Los Angeles Lakers (25-16, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (29-14, third in the Western Conference)

Brooklyn and Phoenix set for out-of-conference game

Phoenix Suns (25-17, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (12-28, 13th in the Eastern Conference)

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