Tyrese Haliburton buried a deep three to beat the Bulls

The Bulls and Pacers met Indiana on Sunday to level with 11th-ranked Chicago East, two games behind the Wizards in 10th-ranked and last play-in spot.

The result was a high-score thriller as Zach LaVine had another big game with 42 points, but it wasn’t enough to defeat Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers. The first-time All-Star had 29 points and 11 assists in a 125-122 win in Indiana, including the game-winning bucket when he pulled well past the three-point line to bury the dagger over Patrick Beverley in under 3 seconds to play.

Haliburton had a sensational year for the somewhat surprising Pacers, who were a team many had on potential tank guards earlier in the year but were competitive and held their group together through deadline day. Rookie Bennedict Mathurin assisted Haliburton in the win over the Bulls, who had 17 points off the bench, while Myles Turner added 16 and Chris Duarte also had a nice night with 15 in a reserve role.

On the Bulls’ side, DeMar DeRozan scored 23 points, but the rest of the roster just wasn’t able to give LaVine enough support to eke out a win as they fell to 10th in their chase. Both Chicago and Indiana are three games back in the losing column but only one back in the winning column for Washington as they hope the Wizards stumble down the stretch to set a real race for that final game. in place.