Atlanta Hawks @ Chicago Bulls
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM ET
United Center, Chicago, IL | Game ID: 22400563
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
CHI 25 22 31 16 94ATL 27 34 25 24 110
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Keaton Wallace scores career-high 27 points to help the Hawks beat the Bulls, 110-94
CHICAGO -- — Keaton Wallace had a career-high 27 points and the short-handed Atlanta Hawks beat the Chicago Bulls 110-94 on Wednesday night.
Wallace nearly doubled his previous high of 14. He made four 3-pointers and had six assists.
Daeqwon Plowden scored 19 points in his NBA debut after being called up from the G League’s College Park Skyhawks.
Dyson Daniels scored 18 points, and Onyeka Okongwu added 14 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists to help the Hawks win for the third time in four games even though Trae Young sat out due to a bruised right rib. The three-time All-Star was hurt against Phoenix on Tuesday night when he scored a season-high 43 points in a 122-117 win .
Coby White scored 16 points for Chicago. Zach LaVine had 15, and Nikola Vucevic added 14 points and 16 rebounds.
Takeaways Hawks: Young, averaging 23.1 points and a league-leading 11.9 assists, was part of a lengthy list of sidelined Hawks. It included Jalen Johnson (right shoulder inflammation), De’Andre Hunter (left foot soreness), Larry Nance Jr . (right hand) and rookie Zaccharie Risacher (left adductor irritation).
Bulls: The Bulls simply couldn't find much of a rhythm and lost for the fourth time in five games.
Key moment Wallace scored 18 in the first half as the Hawks built a 61-47 lead.
The 6-foot-3 guard had eight points in a 15-0 run early in the second quarter that gave Atlanta a 42-27 lead. The Bulls got within four late in the half before the Hawks scored 13 straight, capped by Okongwu’s alley-oop dunk to make it 59-42 with 1:30 left. Okongwu also put back Bogdan Bogdanovic’s missed 3 in the closing seconds to send Atlanta to the locker room up by 14.
The Bulls went on a 12-2 run in the third to pull within 72-67 with about five miutes left in the quarter. The Hawks led by eight going into the fourth and remained in control from there.
Key stat Both teams struggled from 3-point range, with the Hawks making 13 of 43 and the Bulls going 6 for 27.
Up next The Hawks visit Boston on Saturday night, and the Bulls host Charlotte on Friday night.
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
ATLBB B. Bogdanović
BO Bogdanovic
CC C. Capela
DD D. Daniels
DP D. Plowden
DR D. Roddy
GM G. Mathews
KW K. Wallace
KR Krejci
OO O. Okongwu
VK V. Krejčí
CHIAD A. Dosunmu
CD C. Duarte
CW C. White
DT D. Terry
JC J. Carter
JG J. Giddey
JP J. Phillips
JS J. Smith
MB M. Buzelis
NV N. Vučević
PW P. Williams
TH T. Horton-Tucker
VU Vucevic
ZL Z. LaVine
ATL/CHI the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur