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Butler leads Bulls to 110-90 win over Nuggets

Published Oct. 13, 2014 10:48 p.m. ET

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CHICAGO (AP) Jimmy Butler scored 21 points while rookie Doug McDermott added 16 to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 110-90 rout of the Denver Nuggets in an exhibition game on Monday night.

Kenneth Faried led a balanced Nuggets offense with 19 points. Jusuf Nurkic scored 15 and Timofey Mozgov and Arron Afflalo each added 10 for Denver (1-3).

Derrick Rose and Taj Gibson each scored 15 while Nikola Mirotic added 12 for the Bulls (2-2).

After trailing early, Denver pushed to a 30-19 lead after one quarter and led by as many as 21 in the second quarter before Chicago launched a 29-4 run to force a 58-58 halftime tie on Tony Snell's fast-break dunk with six seconds showing.

The Bulls led 83-75 after three quarters and the Nuggets never got closer than eight in the fourth.

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