Jalen Smith sparked a game-ending run with a thunderous dunk on Joel Embiid, and the Chicago Bulls matched a season high with their fifth straight win, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 109-102.

Even with 152 points on the board in the NBA’s highest-scoring game of the season, the Chicago Bulls came a single possession away from fumbling the win.

It still came within a breath of defeat, because the Hawks enjoyed Sunday’s track race nearly as much. They threw touchdown passes, kept Chicago in rotation, made nearly half their 3s and poured in the third-highest single-game point total of any team this season.

Brandon Miller scored 27 points, Miles Bridges had 22 points, eight rebounds and seven assists and the Charlotte Hornets beat the Chicago Bulls 123-116 on Friday night to snap a seven-game losing streak. Collin Sexton added 21 points off the bench for the ...

Matas Buzelis scored 28 points to lead nine Chicago players in double figures and the Bulls outlasted the Atlanta Hawks 152-150 on Sunday in the highest-scoring game in the NBA this season.

Winning is a contradictory thing for the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls allowed opponents to score at least 120 points in four of their last six games. They also won all four of those games. This dichotomy is powering a four-game winning streak for the Bulls,