Let's get realistic.
The Chicago Bulls are not so much winning the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference as the Toronto Raptors are giving it to them.
Then again, the Bulls do deserve some payback for handing over their playoff seed this month.
The Raptors are losers of three straight and are 4-10 in the month of March, while the Bulls have won their last two games and are also 4-10 in the month of March.
The Bulls are currently a half game back of the Raptors for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Oh, what a month can do for a team.
A month ago the Bulls and Raptors were sitting pretty in the Eastern Conference. Surges by the Miami Heat (11-3 in March), Milwaukee Bucks (16-4 in last 20), and Charlotte Bobcats (10-3 in last 13) to go along with collapses by both the Bulls (lost 10 in a row at one point) and Raptors (lost nine of 10 at one point) have both teams fighting for the final position in the NBA's second season.
The Bulls are currently three-and-a-half games back of the Bobcats, so with nine games remaining on the schedule, it would seem the seventh spot, although doabl ...
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