CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls kicked off this season at home against the Cleveland Cavaliers, with President Obama in the building to witness a matchup between the reigning Eastern Conference champions and the team perennially touted as their most formidable challenger. The Bulls won that game and started the season 22-12.
Six months later, they met the Cavs again Saturday night, with very different stakes this time.
One more loss and the Bulls would have been officially eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since the 2007-08 season. Behind a fourth-quarter comeback, the team kept its season on life support with a 105-102 victory.
"If you would have told me at the beginning of the year we'd be 7-1 against the top two seeds [Cleveland and Toronto] and on the outside looking in I'd have told you you were crazy," Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said after the game.
Saturday morning at shootaround, Hoiberg spliced the famous "So you're telling me there's a chance?" clip from Dumb and Dumber into the team's film re ...
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