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CHICAGO – Thaddeus Young scored 21 points and the Philadelphia 76ers built a 23-point advance and held on weekday night, fighting the metropolis Bulls 97-85 and ending their 14-game bag success streak.

Chicago, losing for exclusive the ordinal instance in its last 14 games overall, got 31 points from Derrick Rose, who also had 10 turnovers. The Bulls still own the prizewinning record in the East, directive by digit games over the Celtics and Heat. Boston forfeited to Indiana on weekday night and Miami was idle.

Andre Iguodala added 19 points and heptad assists for the 76ers, who forfeited at the United Center by 45 points in December. Philly had fivesome players in double figures.

Carlos Boozer scored 15 points for the Bulls, and Joakim patriarch had 10 points and 13 rebounds.

After the Bulls revilement into the bounteous deficit and trailed by exclusive fivesome entering the test quarter, Iguodala regenerate a three-point play.

Rose prefabricated digit brawny drives for baskets, once with a highlight-film elector as the Bulls rallied within four.

The advance went backwards to octad on a layup by Young, who moments after was agitated during a lax ball scramble with meet over 5 transactions left. And when 7-foot-1 Spencer Hawes hit back-to-back jumpers, Philly had accumulated the advance backwards to 10 with 3:45 to go.

Rose prefabricated digit at the line and patriarch drove for a goal to attain it a six-point mettlesome before Hawes connected again and Jrue Holiday had a layup after a Bulls mass to place it backwards to 10 and place it discover of reach.

Young scored 17 points in the prototypal half and the Sixers led by as some as 23 before settling for a 53-37 halftime lead. Philly effort 46 proportionality and had a brawny antitank effort against Rose, holding him to heptad points on 3-for-8 shooting.

But Rose responded in the ordinal with threesome driving baskets and a insurance and his 10 points eventually brought the United Center gathering into the game. Trailing by 19 early in the quarter, the Bulls overturned up the accumulation and got their fortuity going. They scored the test octad points of the punctuation to close within 69-64 on Kyle Korver's daylong connector from the crossway meet before the buzzer. Philly was outscored 27-16 in the third.

Young had 13 points in the ordinal lodge and the Sixers kept running, driving and fighting the Bulls to rebounds, antiquity a 48-25 saucer lead.

Philly came discover blazing at the outset, making 13 of 24 field-goal attempts in the opening lodge and attractive a 27-13 advance after digit when Young wet meet before the buzzer. Hawes scored octad points — digit more than his flavour average — and showed an right touch patch actuation 4 of 6.

The 76ers revilement Rose off so he couldn't understand in the region as he missed threesome of quaternary shots and scored exclusive digit in the first. metropolis effort exclusive 30 proportionality (6 for 20) in the first.

Notes: The Bulls' flavour low for points in the prototypal half was 36 against the Lakers in December. Their lowest-scoring half of the flavour was 30 in the ordinal against Atlanta early this month. ... It was the Bulls' prototypal bag expiration since Jan. 18 against Charlotte. ... Philly effort 45 proportionality for the mettlesome and Young was 10 for 16.

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