Former Chicago Bulls forward Bob Love, a three-time All-Star who spent 11 years in the NBA, died Monday after a long battle with cancer. He was 81.

Love averaged 21.3 points and 6.8 rebounds during his nine seasons with the team.

The 6-foot-8 Love starred at Southern University in Baton Rouge before he was selected by Cincinnati in the fourth round of the 1965 NBA draft. He played for the Royals for two seasons before he was taken by Milwaukee in the expansion draft in 1968.

Love and Bob Weiss were traded to Chicago in November 1968 for Flynn Robinson. With the Bulls, Love developed into one of the NBA’s best forwards.

Love was an All-Star for three straight seasons from 1970-73. He averaged a career-best 25.8 points during the 1971-72 season.

BUCKS 101, ROCKETS 100: Damian Lillard hit a driving layup with 3.9 seconds left to give Milwaukee a home victory that snapped Houston’s five-game winning streak.

Lillard scored 18 points after missing the previous three games while in the concussion protocol.

The Rockets rallied from a 14-point, third-quarter deficit to take the lead early in the fourth quarter and stayed ahead until Lillard’s decisive basket. Giannis Antetokounmpo blocked a shot by Houston’s Alperen Sengun with 20 seconds left.

Brook Lopez had 27 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks for Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo had 20 points and 14 rebounds.

MAGIC 109, SUNS 99: Franz Wagner scored 32 points, Anthony Black added 20 and visiting Orlando defeated Phoenix.

The Suns had three starters out due to injury, including Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and Jusuf Nurkic. It was Durant’s sixth straight game out of the lineup. Phoenix is 1-5 over that stretch, including losing four straight.

Devin Booker — coming off a season-high 44 points — had 17.

Orlando was without leading scorer Paolo Banchero, who has an oblique injury.

KNICKS 134, WIZARDS 106: Jalen Brunson had 26 points and 11 assists, and New York extended visiting Washington’s losing streak to nine games.

Karl-Anthony Towns added 24 points and 12 rebounds in just 25 minutes for the Knicks, who rang up 40 points in the first quarter.

RAPTORS 130, PACERS 119: RJ Barrett scored a season-high 39 points, Jakob Poeltl had 30 points and 15 rebounds for his third straight double-double and host Toronto snapped a seven-game losing streak by beating Indianat.

Toronto came in with the NBA’s worst record at 2-12 and won for the first time since beating Sacramento in overtime on Nov. 2.

The Pacers’ Pascal Siakam had 25 points and 10 rebounds against his former team.

HEAT 106, 76ERS 89: Jimmy Butler scored a season-high 30 points in his return from a sprained ankle and host Miami erased an early 19-point deficit to beat Philadelphia.

The 76ers’ Joel Embiid played for the third time this season and scored 11 points in 31 minutes.

BULLS 122, PISTONS 112: Zach LaVine scored 16 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter and Chicago pulled away for a win at Detroit.

The game was tied at 95 with 8:46 left, but LaVine had nine points in a 13-2 run that put the Bulls up by 11 with 5:45 to go. He hit six 3-pointers in the quarter.

Nikola Vucevic led the Bulls with 29 points and 12 rebounds.

Cade Cunningham had 26 points and 10 assists for the Pistons.