SAN ANTONIO -- If LaMarcus Aldridge is not the first option on offense for the San Antonio Spurs, then he's definitely No. 1A. And when Aldridge is on, he's nearly unstoppable, as the Chicago Bulls found out Sunday.

Aldridge hit his first 11 shots from the floor on the way to a season-high 33 points in leading the Spurs to a wild 119-100 victory over the Chicago at the AT&T Center as part of the NBA's Christmas Day extravaganza.

Kawhi Leonard added 25 points and a game-high 10 rebounds for the Spurs (25-4), who won for the first time on Christmas since 2008 and improved to 5-6 all time on the holiday.

San Antonio, which won seven of its past eight games, built a 20-point first-quarter lead but gave it all back and more by midway through the third quarter when it trailed 70-67. The Spurs then blew past the Bulls in the final 16 minutes, running away at the end.

San Antonio also got 13 points from Tony Parker and 12 from Pau Gasol.

Chicago (14-16) was led by Dwayne Wade's 24 points and Jimmy Butler hit for 19, Taj Gibson had 12, Nikola Mirotic added 11 (all in the first half) and Robin Lopez scored 10. The Bulls have lost six of their eight outings since beating San Antonio 95-91 at home on Dec. 8.

Aldridge, who was a draft pick of the Bulls, was in the groove early and often, scoring San Antonio's first eight points and helping the Spurs to an 8-0 lead 2 1/2 minutes into the first quarter. Chicago helped by missing its first shots from the field.

San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said he didn't call plays for Aldridge, with the early barrage "just in the flow of motion."

"There were a couple of times here and there, sure, but most of it was out of the flow," Popovich said. "We're always happy when (Aldridge) catches and shoots and doesn't think too much about if he's open at all.

"He's a great shooter -- we like to have him to shoot it, but he's also unselfish," Popovich continued about Aldridge. "He wants to run what we're running and that kind of thing. I think he's starting to figure out that it's important for us for him to score."

San Antonio kept the pedal to the floor as Leonard took his turn, pouring in back-to-back 3-pointers and three free throws when he was fouled taking a third shot from long distance as the Spurs ran their early advantage to 17-2.

The Spurs hit 12 of their first 13 shots from the floor and ended up 14 of 17 from the field (82.4 percent) in the first quarter. Aldridge was 9-of-9 shooting and hit both of his free throws while scoring 20 points in the quarter.

"(Aldridge) is aggressive every night," said Leonard, who is usually the Spurs' top scorer. "He's doing his job. They're double-teaming him and he's kicking it out, and tonight he just got in a groove early and made every shot."

A 12-6 run capped by a 3-pointer by Jerian Grant at the buzzer allowed the Bulls to stay within shouting distance, down just 36-25 after the first 12 minutes.

Chicago cut the Spurs' lead to 52-49 in the waning minutes of the second quarter thanks to 11 points off the bench by Mirotic and nine San Antonio turnovers that handed the Bulls 13 first-half points.

San Antonio settled for a 55-50 advantage at the break as Aldridge had 25 points and six rebounds in the first half while Leonard added 16 points. Mirotic led the Bulls with 11 points and the Chicago bench outscored San Antonio 23-8 before intermission.

Wade's 3-pointer with 7:29 left in the third quarter after two offensive rebounds from his teammates allowed the Bulls to tie the score at 63, erasing all of the 20-point lead the Spurs forged in their hotter-than-fire first-quarter surge. Butler's 3-pointer two minutes later granted Chicago its first lead at 70-67.

San Antonio broke away from a 71-71 tie with 4:10 to play in the third quarter via a 12-3 run keyed by two straight alley-oop slams by Dewayne Dedmon and a 3-pointer from Manu Ginobili. Another layup by Dedmon off an assist from Patty Mills with 3.8 seconds left in the quarter allowed the Spurs an 87-76 lead heading into the fourth quarter.

"I was proud of the way we fought back and dealt with the adversity, which is what we are going to have to do for the rest of the season," Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. "To come back and get a lead after the way we started is a positive sign for our group. What really hurt us is the way we ended the third quarter."

Two Danny Green 3-pointers on consecutive possessions (his only points of the game) in the second minute of the fourth quarter pushed San Antonio's lead to 95-82 and the Spurs ran away from there.

"They did a great job of establishing LaMarcus early," Wade said. "And they continued to make shots -- they are the Spurs. We came out with the same game plan we had when we played them and beat them in Chicago. In that game, they didn't make the shots they made tonight."

NOTES: The Spurs set their regular-season attendance record when 37,492 fans packed the Alamodome to watch San Antonio face Michael Jordan and the Bulls on March 14, 1998. Chicago won 96-86. ... San Antonio tied a franchise high with 20 blocked shots against Chicago on Nov. 26, 1999. ... Six-time NBA All-Star Artis Gilmore averaged 19.3 points and 11.1 rebounds in 482 games with the Bulls (1976-82, 1987-88), and 16.1 points and 9.7 rebounds in 380 games with the Spurs (1982-87). ... Chicago associate coach Jim Boylen was an assistant for the Spurs for two seasons from 2013to 2015. ... Bulls swingman Jimmy Butler scored 26 points on Friday at Charlotte, his 12th straight road performance with 20-plus points. The 12-game streak is tied with Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook for second-most behind only Boston's Isaiah Thomas (15). That streak ended Sunday.