Many people rolled their eyes when Dwight Howard nicknamed the Los Angeles Lakers bench ‘The Bad News Bears’ but they provided all the bad news the Chicago Bulls could handle.
Trailing by 17 points at the half and 13 going into the fourth, the bench scored the Lakers’ first 27 points of the final period, and held the Bulls to just six in the first nine minutes as they came back for a 118-112 road win. The win was their sixth in a row.
LeBron James tallied his third straight triple-double with 30 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists, but it was the bench who stole the show late.