Spurs come up short against Bulls, lose first road game
CHICAGO — Dwyane Wade scored 20 points, and the Chicago Bulls handed San Antonio its first road loss after a 13-0 start, hanging on for a 95-91 victory on Thursday night.
San Antonio fell one win shy of matching the NBA’s best road start set by the Golden State Warriors last season. The Spurs cut an 18-point deficit midway through the third quarter to four in the closing minutes, only to fall short.
Kawhi Leonard scored 24 for San Antonio. Patty Mills added 16 points, hitting 4-of-6 3-pointers. Former Bull Pau Gasol had 13 points and 10 rebounds in his first game in Chicago since signing with San Antonio, but the Spurs lost a road game for the first time since Oklahoma City knocked them out in the Western Conference semifinals last season.
The Spurs hadn’t dropped a regular-season road game since Denver beat them on April 8.
GRIZZLIES 88 TRAIL BLAZERS 86
Marc Gasol scored 36 points, and Toney Douglas made two free throws with less than a second left to give Memphis a comeback victory over visiting Portland.
Douglas finished with 11 points, scoring the game’s final six points to seal Memphis’ fifth straight victory.
76ERS 99, PELICANS 88
Ersan Ilyasova scored 23 points, Sergio Rodriguez added 16, and Philadelphia snapped a franchise record-tying 23game road losing streak by beating New Orleans.
The Pelicans became the first team to lose at home to the Sixers since last season, when Orlando fell to Philadelphia on Jan. 20.
RAPTORS 124, T-WOLVES 110
DeMar DeRozan had 27 points, Kyle Lowry added 25, and the Raptors handed Minnesota its 13th straight loss in Toronto.
Lowry was 5-of-7 from 3-point range and had 11 assists, and Jonas Valanciunas had 20 points and 10 rebounds for his teamleading sixth double-double of the season.
WIZARDS 92, NUGGETS 85
Bradley Beal scored 26 points as Washington overcame a sluggish start, a sparse, silent crowd and a malfunctioning scoreboard to defeat visiting Denver.
WARRIORS 106, JAZZ 99
Stephen Curry scored 26, and Golden State controlled Utah from start to finish in a dominant road victory.