The Hawks came into tonight's game vs the Bulls in first place of East Group C in the NBA Cup and they controlled their own destiny to get to Las Vegas and into the next round. However, they left Chicago tonight with their first loss in the NBA Cup and ...

Zach LaVine scored 26 points, Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White each had 20 and the Chicago Bulls beat the Atlanta Hawks 136-122 on Friday night in an NBA Cup game.

It took almost two seasons, but the Bulls finally won an in-season NBA Cup game, and did so in impressive fashion. While coach Billy Donovan doesn't love the format, he did all he could to try and run up the point differential late.

The Hawks looked to go 3-0 in the NBA Cup and once again pull to within one game of .500. In their way, however, was a Bulls team that mounted a big comeback to win the previous matchup this season. One thing in Atlanta’s favor was a full complement of healthy 15-man roster players (save Cody Zeller who remains away from the team and Mouhamed Gueye who was assigned to the College Park Skyhawks).