Looking for a win in their first road game of the season, the Pacers took a 66-56 lead into halftime on Saturday night in Chicago.
T.J. Warren, the Pacers' leading scorer in 2019-20, scored just five points in Wednesday's opener after sitting out the entire preseason with plantar fasciitis. But Warren was anything but quiet in the opening minutes of Saturday's contest, scoring 12 of Indiana's first 20 points on 6-of-7 shooting.
Despite Warren's outburst, the Bulls led by as many as eight points in the opening frame. The Pacers twice tied the score in the closing minutes of the first quarter, but Chicago took a 28-27 lead into the second.