LaVine leads the Bulls to win over Pistons in Paris

Victor Wembanyama was sitting courtside, the 19-year-old French phenom and presumed No. 1 NBA draft pick watching some of the players he'll go up against next season.

And a guy with a French surname put on quite a show.

Zach LaVine — who said his great-grandfather was French — scored 30 points and the Chicago Bulls never trailed in a 126-108 win over the Detroit Pistons at the NBA Paris Game on Thursday.

“Maybe the air up here was good for me,” LaVine said.

DeMar DeRozan added 26 points for the Bulls, and Nikola Vucevic finished with 16 points, 15 rebounds and six assists.

Bojan Bogdanovic led the Pistons with 25 points. Killian Hayes, the only French player on either roster, scored four points for Detroit on 2-of-13 shooting, but had a gamehigh eight assists. TIMBERWOLVES 128, RAPTORS 126 >> D'Angelo Russell scored 16 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter and Anthony Edwards had 23 as Minnesota rallied to beat Toronto. Kyle Anderson added 20 points and 10 rebounds for Minnesota, which was down Rudy Gobert and Austin Rivers and playing the second game of a back-toback after a fourth-quarter collapse a night earlier in Denver.

MAVS' WOOD OUT WITH BROKEN THUMB >> Dallas Mavericks forward Christian Wood will miss multiple games with a broken left thumb. The injury to Wood's non-shooting hand occurred during the Mavericks' 130-122 loss to Atlanta on Wednesday night, the team said. He will be re-evaluated next week.

KNICKS' ROBINSON HAS SURGERY ON THUMB >> New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson will miss at least three weeks after having surgery to repair a fractured right thumb. The Knicks said Robinson had the procedure a day after he was injured in a 116-105 loss to Washington.

GIANNIS TAKES LEAD IN ALL-STAR VOTING >> Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo has passed Brooklyn's Kevin Durant for the All-Star Game voting lead among Eastern Conference players, now putting him on track to be a captain for the Feb. 19 game in Salt Lake City. Antetokounmpo had 5,970,196 votes entering Thursday, the NBA said in the third update of the All-Star balloting. Durant is 132,014 votes behind, with 5,838,182. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers remains the overall voting leader, with 6,506,682 votes.