The Bulls were threatening a team-record low points for a half (23, set against Miami on April 10, 1999) before Jevon Carter hit a pair of late 3s. Chicago missed 20 of its first 23 attempts from beyond the arc. Boston wasn’t much better, making only 5 of its first 19.

At the start of the 2025-26 regular season, most fans would not expect the Celtics to count offensive rebounding as a strength that won them a game.

Head coach Joe Mazzulla was proud that his Celtics found a way to grit out an ugly win over the Bulls on Monday night.

The Celtics have struggled in the past coming home after a long road trip, but they played plenty hard in their win over the Bulls.

At the start of the Boston Celtics home game against the Chicago Bulls, it seemed like neither ball club could hit a shot. Then, at the end of the first frame, the Celtics started to pull away, and survived a late push by the Bulls in the game's fourth quarter to come away with a 115-101 victory that would propel them into the Eastern Conference's second-place spot.

Fresh off a west coast road trip, the Celtics continued to surge up the Eastern Conference standings on Monday.

The Chicago Bulls head to Boston fresh off a head-scratching back-to-back set. They first took down an emerging Orlando Magic squad before stumbling against the

Josh Giddey was absent. Coby White still wasn’t back to full strength. And that left Matas Buzelis as the sole spark for a flailing Chicago Bulls team.

Anfernee Simons scored all of his 27 points in the second half — including 18 in a row at one point — and Payton Pritchard added 21 for the Celtics, now No. 2 in the East.

Anfernee Simons and the Celtics are now second in the Eastern Conference following their 115-101 win over the Bulls.

Payton Pritchard made a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to close out the first half of the Celtics' matchup against the Bulls on Monday night.