AP
Things couldn’t have gotten much worse for the Bulls than the first five minutes of their game Wednesday against the 76ers at the United Center.
They were held to one point — a free throw by guard Zach LaVine — and allowed 23. Their first field goal didn’t come until close to the six-minute mark, when Nikola Vucevic enforced his will and slammed home a dunk.
But it turned out the 76ers’ 22-point lead in the first quarter wasn’t the worst of things. The Bulls went into the half trailing by 28 points and ended the night with a 116-91 loss, despite 76ers star Joel Embiid spending the entire second half in the locker room and teammate James Harden on the bench with an Achilles injury.