CHICAGO — Taj Gibson and E’Twaun Moore each scored 17 points, Tony Snell added 16 points and a thrown-together roster of Chicago Bulls backups beat the Washington Wizards, 109-104, on Wednesday night.
Three of the Bulls’ top four scorers missed the game and the fourth was sick.
Pau Gasol, who missed practice on Tuesday and was playing with the flu, narrowly missed a triple-double, finishing with 15 rebounds, 10 points and nine assists in the Bulls’ third consecutive victory.
Bradley Beal led the Wizards with 19 points. Garrett Temple scored 18 points and Ramon Sessions and John Wall each added 16. Markieff Morris had 10 rebounds for the Wizards.
Chicago’s Derrick Rose was a last-minute scratch with right hamstring tendinitis, while the Bulls’ leading scorer, Jimmy Butler, missed a seventh game with a left knee strain. Nikola Mirotic is out because of appendicitis.
Mike Dunleavy and Doug McDermott each had 14 points for Chicago. Aaron Brooks finished with 11 points.
The Bulls also have been without Joakim Noah because of a shoulder injury since Jan. 15.
The teams played fairly evenly in the first half with Chicago taking a 57-55 halftime lead. The Bulls then went on a third-quarter run that had them up by as much as 15 in the period.
Alan Anderson returned to the lineup for the Wizards, playing for the first time this season after surgery on his left ankle. He finished with nine points in 16 minutes.
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