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Jack Nicklaus, 1962 The rookie, above, beat Arnold Palmer in a playoff to prevail at the U.S. Open. Jim Bunning, 1964 Had a perfect game for the Phillies vs. the [...]

Game 6 of the 1998 N.B.A. finals presented the Chicago Bulls with an opportunity to earn their sixth title and second three-peat, this time on the road against Karl Malone, [...]

The Nets -- then calling New Jersey home -- made the playoffs for the first time since 1994. Their reward: a first-round matchup with 35-year-old Michael Jordan and the Chicago [...]

D'Angelo Russell scored 30 points, Shabazz Napier had 24 off the bench, and the Nets beat the Chicago Bulls, 122-117, on Tuesday night for their ninth straight win at home.Rondae [...]

CHICAGO -- D'Angelo Russell scored 28 points, DeMarre Carroll had 20 points off the bench, and the Nets beat the Chicago Bulls, 117-100, on Sunday for their third straight victory.Jarrett [...]

CHICAGO -- Spencer Dinwiddie scored 27 points off the bench and made a crucial defensive play in the final seconds to lift the Nets over the Chicago Bulls, 96-93, on [...]

It was only a matter of time before Klay Thompson would get hot. The (other) sharpshooting guard of the Golden State Warriors, Thompson ended his season-long slump in a huge [...]

LeBron James had 26 points and 11 assists, Kevin Love scored 28 points, and the Cleveland Cavaliers got their 50th win and another Central Division title when they beat the [...]

The rookie Lauri Markkanen scored a season-high 33 points, Kris Dunn shook off a nightmarish shooting night to make the tiebreaking basket in the second overtime, and the Chicago Bulls [...]

CHICAGO -- Kris Dunn scored 17 points, including two crucial free throws in the final seconds, and the surging Chicago Bulls rallied to beat the Knicks, 92-87, on Wednesday night. [...]

CHICAGO -- Kris Dunn made two free throws with 2.9 seconds left to give the Chicago Bulls a 104-102 victory over the Knicks on Saturday night. Coach Fred Hoiberg put [...]

Jimmy Butler scored 22 points on Tuesday night, Rajon Rondo finished one rebound shy of a triple-double, and the visiting Chicago Bulls, the No. 8 seed, beat the top-seeded Boston [...]

Jimmy Butler had 30 points and 9 rebounds as the Chicago Bulls outlasted host Boston, 106-102, in an emotional playoff opener for the grieving Celtics star Isaiah Thomas on Sunday. [...]

The Knicks have used the last month of this disappointing season to fiddle with their lineup, sometimes finding surprising results. They have seen Ron Baker play competently in place of [...]

TORONTO -- DeMar DeRozan had 42 points, and the Toronto Raptors ended an 11-game losing streak against the Chicago Bulls, rallying for a wild 122-120 overtime win on Tuesday night. [...]

Michelle Wie rolled in several clutch putts and had six birdies in a 10-hole stretch to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the HSBC Women's Champions in [...]

Andrew Wiggins scored 27 points, and Karl-Anthony Towns added 22 to help the Timberwolves beat the short-handed Chicago Bulls, 117-89, in Minnesota on Sunday. Ricky Rubio had 17 points, 11 [...]

Kristaps Porzingis sent Knicks officials a text message Thursday afternoon: His left Achilles' tendon was sore and stiff again, he told them. The sun had not even set, and the [...]

Russell Westbrook had 21 points, 14 assists and 9 rebounds, helping the Oklahoma City Thunder pull away from the host Chicago Bulls for an easy 109-94 victory. Steven Adams scored [...]

Jimmy Butler matched his season high with 40 points and hit an 18-footer at the buzzer to give the Chicago Bulls a 101-99 comeback victory over the Nets. An apparently [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge had a season-high 33 points and the host San Antonio Spurs held on to beat the Chicago Bulls, 119-100, on Sunday after nearly blowing a hot start. Kawhi [...]

Jimmy Butler scored 26 points, Dwyane Wade had 24 and the Chicago Bulls beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 111-105. Taj Gibson added a season-high 23 points and 11 rebounds for host [...]

CHICAGO -- Tyler Pleiss was home from college on April 28, 2012, a date that sticks in the minds of many here. Pleiss was on the couch at his parents' [...]

Jimmy Butler scored 22 points, Dwyane Wade had 12, and the Chicago Bulls improved to 3-0 by beating the Nets, 118-88, at Barclays Center. The Bulls had seven players in [...]

Stephen Strasburg threw eight masterful innings and bunted in a run, Michael Taylor hit a two-run homer that broke the game open, and host Washington beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-1, [...]

Jeff Teague scored 23 points, Kyle Korver added 14, and the Hawks held off the Toronto Raptors for a 95-87 victory in Atlanta on Thursday night. It was one of [...]

After corralling a defensive rebound midway through the fourth quarter, Jose Calderon peeked up and spotted Derrick Williams streaking down the left sideline. Calderon heaved a diagonal two-handed pass from [...]

The rookie Kristaps Porzingis tied a season high with 29 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Carmelo Anthony added 24 points, and the Knicks beat the Bulls, 115-107, on Wednesday night [...]

CHICAGO -- Doug McDermott scored 25 points and Jimmy Butler added 22 to help the Chicago Bulls beat the Nets, 118-102, on Thursday night. It was the third straight 20-plus [...]

Doug McDermott scored 29 points off the bench to lead Chicago to a 109-107 victory at Toronto on Monday night, with the Bulls earning their ninth straight victory over the [...]

Kawhi Leonard had 29 points, LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 10 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs won their 31st straight at home since the opening of the season [...]

Joe Johnson's home debut on Tuesday night in Miami was part of the best shooting effort in Heat history. And he is part of a winning streak for the first [...]

Victor Oladipo had 17 points and a career-high 14 rebounds and also hit the 3-pointer that put the Orlando Magic ahead for good in overtime to beat the visiting Dallas [...]

LeBron James scored 25 points and barely missed a triple-double, Kevin Love added 15 points and 15 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers looked refreshed from the All-Star break with a [...]

Don't mess with the Clippers' bench. Their reserves have been dominant in Blake Griffin's absence, with Jamal Crawford leading the way with 26 points in a 120-93 victory over the [...]

Pau Gasol had 17 points and 18 rebounds, Derrick Rose scored 18 points, and the Bulls beat the Boston Celtics, 101-92, on Thursday night in Chicago for their sixth straight [...]

Deron Williams hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer in the second overtime, and the Dallas Mavericks beat Sacramento, 117-116, for their 22nd consecutive home victory over the Kings. Williams took [...]

Jimmy Butler broke Michael Jordan's team record for points in a half on Sunday, scoring 40 of his 42 after the break to lead the Chicago Bulls over the host [...]

CHICAGO -- Coach Derek Fisher allowed 2 minutes 3 seconds to elapse before he motioned to an official for relief. Fisher's first timeout on Friday evening was a needed reprieve [...]

Paul Millsap scored 22 points, Al Horford added 19 points, and the Atlanta Hawks won their sixth straight game with a 117-98 victory at home over the Knicks on Saturday [...]

Roughly 24 hours after one of their worst performances, the Nets produced one of their best. Brook Lopez had 21 points and 12 rebounds, Thaddeus Young added 16 points and [...]

As the final buzzer sounded in the Bulls' four-overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons late Friday night, it was almost as if Chicago was losing two games in the standings [...]

Derrick Rose scored 29 points and Jimmy Butler added 26 to lead the host Chicago Bulls to a 104-98 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Kevin Durant scored 33 points [...]

Optimism around the Nets has been hard to come by. The feeling appeared -- unexpectedly and ever so briefly -- in an energetic spurt in the second quarter of their [...]

CHICAGO -- In front of a president who has run his final campaign, the Chicago Bulls unleashed their up-tempo offense with a season-opening 97-95 victory over LeBron James and the [...]

CHICAGO -- LeBron James is 6 feet 8 inches and 250 pounds of rippling muscle and world-class skill, but to the Chicago Bulls he looked like a mountain they could [...]

CLEVELAND -- The perfectionist in LeBron James had frowned on the inefficient way he played in the first four games of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the way he dominated the [...]

CHICAGO -- The boos rumbled through United Center when LeBron James was introduced on Sunday afternoon, and they reverberated again whenever he sized up a defender or backed him down, [...]

CHICAGO -- For a player known for long, sweeping drives to the basket, Derrick Rose has shown a notable ability to navigate a path of small and incremental steps. Rose [...]