Warriors rout Bulls, Sixers stay hot

LOS ANGELES: Golden Inform busted out of a plod with their most dominant victory of the NBA season on Friday (Saturday in Manila), the Warriors persevering with their mastery over Chicago by clobbering the Bulls 138-96 on the United Center.

Andrew Wiggins done with a crew-high 21 parts and Stephen Curry delivered 19 because the Warriors rebounded from a 118-99 loss to the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday.

The loss to the Bucks became the Warriors’ fourth of their last five video games.

Rookie Jonathan Kuminga done with 25 parts and Jordan Poole scored 22 for the Warriors, who pulled away early to put off their 10th consecutive recreation over the Bulls, together with five straight in Chicago.

The Bulls problems mounted Friday after being blown out by the Brooklyn Nets two evening earlier.

Already down a starting up ahead with Derrick Jones sidelined with a hyperextended neatly-behaved knee, Chicago misplaced All-Enormous name Zach LaVine early within the recreation after he injured his neatly-behaved knee.

LaVine pulled himself from the recreation by committing an intentional execrable. He regarded to hurt the knee moments earlier while going for a rebound.

Nikola Vucevic had 19 parts and 14 rebounds, Coby White added 20 parts, and DeMar DeRozan scored 17 for the Bulls, who were booed off the court docket Friday trailing 78-47 on the half. They suffered their worst loss of the season.

The Warriors played without Klay Thompson, who became resting. Thompson is getting back from a excessive hurt, so coach Steve Kerr doesn’t would prefer to make exclaim of him in abet-to-abet video games.

Thompson has played in three video games after getting back from a 2 1/2-twelve months absence with a torn ACL and an hurt to his Achilles tendon.

In diverse places, Joel Embiid carried the burden offensively for Philadelphia, scoring 25 parts and grabbing 13 rebounds because the 76ers beat the Boston Celtics 111-99 for their eighth put off in nine video games.

Embiid done five parts rapid of what would had been his ninth straight recreation with a minimum of 30 parts, which would indulge in broken the franchise document he shares with Wilt Chamberlain and Allen Iverson.

Tyrese Maxey added 23 parts, Tobias Harris had 17 parts and Seth Curry scored 17 for Philadelphia, who bounced abet from a 109-98 loss to the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday that halted their seven-recreation put off gallop.

Jaylen Brown scored 21 parts and Jayson Tatum added 20 parts and 11 rebounds for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard came off the bench to ranking 17 parts and Robert Williams tallied 12 parts and 14 rebounds.

In Indianapolis, Devin Booker scored 22 of his 35 parts within the third quarter and Deandre Ayton had 27 parts and 12 rebounds to gas the visiting Phoenix Suns to a 112-94 victory over the Indiana Pacers.

Booker drained a profession high-tying six three-pointers to present Phoenix its fifth put off within the last six video games.