(Sports Direct) – Brooklyn upended Chicago 110-91 to stay alive in their Eastern Conference first-round series Monday night. Brook Lopez with 28 points and 10 rebounds and Deron Williams adding 23 points and 10 assists as the Nets cut the Bulls’ lead to 3-2.
Game Six is tomorrow in Chicago.
Nate Robinson scored 20 points and Jimmy Butler added 18 for the Bulls, who were outscored 33-18 in the final quarter.
Chicago had rallied from a 14-point final-quarter deficit in the final minutes of regulation in Game Four before notching a triple-overtime victory.
Chicago trailed 85-84 after Marco Belinelli’s three-pointer with 8:15 to play before Brooklyn took control. Robinson’s jumper with 4:15 left was Chicago’s last field goal and Brooklyn answered with a game-ending 15-1 run.
Atlanta, led by Josh Smith’s 29 points and 11 rebounds, evened the best-of-seven series with Indiana at two games apiece with a 102-91 points win Monday night.
Kyle Korver hit five three-pointers en route to 19 points off the bench and Al Horford added 18 for the Hawks, who have held the Pacers to an average of 80 points in the last two games to crawl out of an 0-2 hole. Game Five is today at Indiana.
Paul George recorded 21 points and 12 rebounds and David West had 15 and six as the Pacers struggled to 38.1 percent from the field.
Indiana crept to within 92-87 with 1:46 left but Horford knocked down a jumper and found Smith for a layup on the next possession to push it out to a nine-point edge.
Atlanta went 6-for-6 from the free throw line in the final 26 seconds to close it out.