If there’s a “rookie wall” for Bulls forward Matas Buzelis, he crashed through it Saturday night, writes Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun-Times. Buzelis scored a career-high 31 points in a convincing win over the Lakers, shooting 12-of-18 from the field and 5-of-10 from three-point range.
The Chicago Bulls are coming off a win in California’s capital, Sacramento, where they beat the Sacramento Kings 128-116. This was the Bull’s first matchup against the Kings since they traded guard Zach LaVine at the deadline.
The Bulls have ruled out point guard Tre Jones for at least two weeks after confirming his diagnosis of a left foot sprain, the team announced in a press release.
How many of the NBA players with at least 30 games with 30 points in the postseason can you name in five minutes?
The Chicago Bulls might have their eyes set on a crucial upcoming offseason with the NBA Draft and contract extensions to worry about, but for now, they'll travel to face the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night in a battle between two polarizing franchises.
The Chicago Bulls are slowly winding down their season as there are only 13 games left in the regular season. The Bulls are coming off a tough loss to the Phonix Suns where they lost by a score of 127-121.
The Chicago Bulls are slowly winding down the season as they only have a handful of games left. The Bulls are currently on a three-game winning streak and are fighting for a spot in the play-in tournament with the Miami Heat.
As an undersized pure point guard who rarely takes three-pointers, Tre Jones doesn’t really fit the Bulls‘ blueprint, but he has impressed the team since being acquired from San Antonio in last month’s Zach LaVine trade, averaging 9.6 points and 3.7 assists per game on .538/.429/.905 shooting in his first 13 outings with Chicago.
The Chicago Bulls traded their best player, Zach LaVine, to the Sacramento Kings back in February, and one of the players that came to Chicago in the deal is Tre Jones.
Leading late in the fourth quarter, the Orlando Magic looked poised to break their four-game losing streak. Then Coby White took over the game.
The Houston Rockets watched idly from the sideline as the San Antonio Spurs sent Tre Jones to the Chicago Bulls as part of the three-team deal that brought All-Star point guard De'Aaron Fox to Alamo City.
When the Chicago Bulls traded Zach LaVine to the Sacramento Kings in a three-team deal, they acquired three players: Tre Jones, Kevin Huerter, and Zach Collins.
The trades keep coming. In the most recent NBA blockbuster trade, the Sacramento Kings traded De’Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs as part of a three-team deal with the Chicago Bulls, per ESPN’s Shams Charania.
The Spurs are finalizing a three-team trade in which they’ll acquire Kings star guard De’Aaron Fox, while Bulls high-scoring wing Zach LaVine will be moved to Sacramento, ESPN’s Shams Charania tweets.
Another day, another franchise-altering blockbuster trade in the NBA.
The Atlanta Hawks may have surprised some people with the way they’ve been playing so far this season. They’ve got some quality wins against some good teams, and they even found themselves in the quarterfinals of the NBA Cup.
For a team that hasn't made the playoffs in five seasons, reliably average point guard play might be boring, yet also exactly what this young team needs.
The San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks have one of the more historical regional rivalries in the NBA. While the rivalry peaked in the 2000s and 2010s with Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki going back and forth, it is far from being Dallas' most significant rivalry.
As San Antonio Spurs legendary coach Gregg Popovich continues to recover from a mild stroke suffered near the beginning of this month, his backup point guard, Tre Jones, is sure to compliment the soon-to-be 38-year-old Mitch Johnson.
Jones said if the guys on the perimeter do their job on defense by forcing the ball inside the paint, Victor Wembanyama will clean up the middle. "We do our jobs on the perimeter and Victor will do his job in the paint," Jones said.
A smile creeped onto Cam Reddish's face as he heard his name echo inside Barclays Center. Beneath it, a gold chain, tucked underneath his aptly gold, flower-patterned suit, hung nicely.
On Thursday night, two Duke basketball talents teased their potential to be wizardly on the same squad. Washington Wizards guard and 2014-15 one-and-done national champion Tyus Jones dished out a career-high 15 assists, along with four rebounds, three steals, and only one turnover across his 37 minutes of action.
While Tre Jones welcomes the chance to start at point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, it doesn’t consume him. In fact, ask Jones if he sees this as an opportunity to solidify his role as the team’s starting PG and the answer isn’t any kind of a clarification.
The experiment of having Jeremy Sochan run point guard was admirable, but those days are long behind the San Antonio Spurs, and they are much better for it.
Fourth-year San Antonio Spurs guard Tre Jones drew his first start of the season in Thursday night's 125-121 home loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, tying his season-high with 18 points in 35 minutes on the floor.
No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama is the most exciting NBA prospect in years, but you'll have to catch him in the regular season.
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