NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Nets welcomed the Chicago Bulls to Barclays Center on Sunday for the second leg of a home back-to-back and won 118-109.
For the Nets, Spencer Dinwiddie had 24 points and seven assists while Royce O’Neale had 20 points and nine rebounds. Lonnie Walker IV had 20 points off the bench and Mikal Bridges had 15 points.
For the Bulls, DeMar DeRozan had 27 points and six rebounds while Coby White had 23 points and five rebounds. Zach LaVine and Patrick Williams had 20 points each.
In the first half, Chicago came out like a team on a mission as they made threes aplenty to build a 21-point lead faster than you could blink. It was the kind of quarter where nothing worked for Brooklyn and everything was working for Chicago. The second quarter was the opposite as the Nets outscored the Bulls 44-19 thanks to some lights-out three-pointing of their own to go into halftime leading 63-55.
In the second half, both teams played to a stalemate essentially as the Nets lead the Bulls by one point in the half. However, with the way that Brooklyn completely turned things around in the second quarter, Chicago never made enough of a run to catch up.
Here are your Nets player grades for Sunday’s win: