{"id":2020,"date":"2011-04-28T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2011-04-28T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:13:27","slug":"bulls-send-pacers-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/bulls-send-pacers-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Send Pacers Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pacers-bulls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2021\" title=\"pacers bulls\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pacers-bulls-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pacers-bulls-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pacers-bulls-342x231.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/pacers-bulls.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A series that had been pretty evenly played exploded in a third-quarter  burst of Derrick Rose Tuesday as the Chicago Bulls finished the season  for the Indiana Pacers, beating the visiting team 116-89.<\/p>\n<p>Rose, who entered the game with a sprained ankle, was called for his  fourth foul early in the third, but after taking a short break, he came  back onto the floor and took control of the game. He hit back-to-back  threes on his way to scoring 10 of his game-high 25 points in the  period. Luol Deng contributed 24 for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Except for that stretch, the Pacers gave the Bulls all they could handle  in the game and the series. Considering their sub-.500 regular season,  the Pacers made a good showing, led by Danny Granger, who finished  Tuesday with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago now waits for the winner of the Orlando-Atlanta series. The Hawks lead 3-2, with game six set for Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series that had been pretty evenly played exploded in a third-quarter burst of Derrick Rose Tuesday as the Chicago Bulls finished the season for the Indiana Pacers, beating the visiting team 116-89. Rose, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[1151,1152,1149,687,1150,794,1154,888,1153,1148,954],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-1151","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-bull-advance","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-danny-granger","tag-derrick-rose","tag-game-5","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-pacers-lose","tag-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}