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Chicago Tribune
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K.C. Johnson

Pacers rout listless Bulls, 125-86

INDIANAPOLIS _ The last time the Bulls visited here, they lost their 10th straight game in an epic second-half collapse that marked a seasonal low point on Dec. 6.

Saturday night, they entered with confidence, winners on Friday in Dallas and having scored at least 110 points in five straight games for the first time since January 1996.

The former team showed up.

Allowing 124 or more points for the fourth straight game for the first time in franchise history, the Bulls meekly succumbed 125-86 as seven Pacers reached double figures.

Committing 16 turnovers and shooting 37.5 percent, the Bulls trailed by as many as 41.

Nikola Mirotic played after throwing up postgame Friday in Dallas, scoring eight points.

For the Pacers, leading scorer Victor Oladipo returned after missing four games with knee soreness and scored 23 points with nine assists and five steals in just 23 minutes, 36 seconds. Bojan Boganovic sat with a sprained ankle.

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