Coby White scored 37 points, Josh Giddey had 26 points and nine assists, and the visiting Chicago Bulls beat the short hand Denver Nuggets 129-119 on Monday night to end their six-played trip.
Dalen Terry and Jalen Smith scored 14 points each, Nikola Vucevic had 12 and Matas Buzelis contributed 10 for Chicago (32-40). Bulls finished 4-2 on the longest road trip of the season.
Jamal Murray scored 28 points, Peyton Watson added a career pile 24, Christian Braun ended with 18, Michael Porter Jr. Had 16 and Deandre Jordan had 10 points and 17 returns for Denver. Nuggets (45-28) were without Nikola Jokic and Aaron Gordon.
Jokic missed his fifth straight game with a left ankle and a sore right elbow and Gordon sat the second game in a back-to-back to handle his right calf. Denver is 2-3 in Jokic’s absence.
Nuggets opened the fourth with a can and a layout of Porter to lead 99-95, but White met a 3-pointer and a layout, and Russell Westbrook’s fifth turnover of the night led to a Chicago-Dunk and EN 102-99 bull leader.
Murray missed a layout and white hit two free throw to stretch the lead to five. Braun converted a three-point game but Terry and Smith met Corner 3 points to give Bulls a lead of 112-103 with 6:36 left.
Murray and Braun met 3-points but Chicago both responded to keep the advantage at nine, and Giddey dropped another from Deep, Bulls’ 16th at night, to make it 123-111 with 3:47 left.
Nuggets got it within 125-119 when Westbrook missed a 3-pointer with 1:04 left, and Chicago was on.
Westbrook finished with 14 points and 10 assists.
Denver led by as many as 13 during the first quarter but White’s 15-point second quarter tied it at 65 at half time.
The Bulls built an 80-74 lead halfway through the third quarter, but Watson met a couple of 3 points to collect Nuggets to a lead of 95-93 late. White’s Layup still got it back into the fourth quarter.
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