By R.L. Bynum
Coby White was in a zone on Monday night, and the Chicago Bulls rode that to a come-from-behind victory.
White scored a career-high 37 points, with seven assists and five rebounds, as the Bulls rallied from a 22-point deficit to win at Sacramento 113–109.
“It’s a dope feeling,” said White, who was scoreless and didn’t get off a shot in the first quarter when the Kings took a 36–22 lead. “But it’s just one game. We’ve got three more games on this road trip against three really good teams. So, for us, be happy about this win. We’ve got to move on to the next one.”
White was 14 of 19 from the floor, 5 of 9 from 3-point range and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line for a career-high 32.1 game score.
“I was just trying to let the game come to me, not force it,” White said. “I was just trying to play within the flow of the offense.”
Chicago kept coming at the Kings even with a big deficit.
“On the basketball court is easy,” White said. “But the stuff a lot of these guys went through in their whole lifetime, I feel like the character that’s in this room, that’s what creates the resiliency.”
White, who scored 18 in the fourth quarter, tied the game on a driving layup with 1:32 left. Then, with 48 seconds left, he scored on a driving finger-roll layup to give Chicago a two-point lead, and the Bulls held on from there.
White seems to save his best games for visits to Sacramento. His best previous totals were 36 points and a 31.3 game score at Sacramento on Jan. 6, 2021.
“At this point in the season, however, you can get wins, you’ve got to get wins,” said White, whose team is 29–31 and ninth in the Eastern Conference. “You’ve got to start stacking wins. I don’t care how we get them. I don’t care how it looks. At the end of the day, if we win, that’s all we care about.”
It was White’s seventh game this season with at least 30 points after he never scored more than 25 points in a game last season.
Harrison Barnes had 10 points for Sacramento.
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