They barely had time to work up a sweat before the Chicago Bulls found themselves trailing by 19 points Thursday night against the Dallas Mavericks. And less than six minutes into the game, the boos started rolling across the United Center. “It’s only the first quarter of an NBA game, so I knew we’d come from behind somehow,” Chicago rookie Derrick Rose said.
They barely had time to work up a sweat before the Chicago Bulls found themselves trailing by 19 points Thursday night against the Dallas Mavericks. And less than six minutes into the game, the boos started rolling across the United Center. “It’s only the first quarter of an NBA game, so I knew we’d come from behind somehow,” Chicago rookie Derrick Rose said.
In the locker room at halftime, Cavaliers coach Mike Brown forced his players to watch a horror flick — highlights of their defense in the first half. “We were watching film and it was as ugly as it looked,” Mo Williams said. After allowing 61 points in a first-half track meet, the Cavaliers buckled down, held Denver to 38 after halftime and won their sixth straight, 110-99 over the Nuggets on…
LeBron James just missed his first triple-double this season, but got something even more rare: A win over good buddy Carmelo Anthony. James scored 22 points, most of them coming with Anthony guarding him, but Cleveland’s megastar was on the bench when Mo Williams and the Cavaliers finally put away the Denver Nuggets and won their sixth straight, 110-99 on Thursday night.