In the NBA regular season, the East ushered in a strong dialogue, and the 76ers challenged the Bulls on the road. Both teams in this game have the main players absent from the game, but still played a high-quality showdown, the core of the two teams Embiid and DeRozan's battle is also very exciting, in the course of the game there are attacks and defenses, helpless DeRozan and Vucevic do not have enough helpers around, and finally failed to resist in the last quarter, losing 108-119 to the 76ers.
In this game, LaVine is still absent, and after the start of the two teams, embiid and DeRozan respectively supported their respective teams' offenses, the 76ers with consecutive hits from the outside, occupied the initiative on the court, and took an 8-point lead in the first quarter; in the second quarter, the 76ers maintained a lead, Embiid was unstoppable on the inside, once helped the team to take a 15-point lead, but DeRozan led the team to chase points continuously, only 9 points behind after halftime. In the second half, the 76ers again pulled the point difference in double digits, but the Bulls continued to chase the points, Vucevic led the team to a 13-0 offensive wave, narrowing the point difference to 4 points, and Embiid scored consecutive points to help the team seal the victory.
In this campaign, the core of the two teams played very well, Embiid continued the recent hot state, playing 32 minutes, shooting 14 of 23, shooting 2 of 4 three-pointers, 10 of 11 free throws, slashing 40 points and 10 rebounds, plus or minus +11. He scored at least 25 points in 20 consecutive games, becoming the third player in NBA history to achieve this feat. And this time he also has enough helpers around him, Harris 23 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, Maxi 16 points and 6 assists, and Curry Jr. 12 points.
DeRozan became an empty cut this time, playing 41 minutes, shooting 18-of-30, with 45 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, still playing very well, but he failed to lead the team to victory. Embiid also gave DeRozan enough praise after the game, "DeRozan is a really good player, I always feel that he is underrated. He's strong in the mid-range, he can hit tough shots, like I said, DeRozan is underrated and I've always been a deRozan fan. Compared with Embiid, DeRozan only had Vucevic with 23 points and 7 rebounds, Green with 17 points, and other players did not score in double figures.
After losing to the 76ers, the Bulls also lost the first place in the East, and the Heat managed to move up to the first place in the East. In addition, Bulls coach Donovan also regrettably failed to become the head coach of Durant, and Heat coach Spoo was successfully elected. But the Bulls have performed very well this season, and no one would have thought at the beginning of the season that they would be able to rank in the top of the East, and when the injured returned, they could continue to impact.