The crowd definitely had a playoff buzz. The UC was rockin'! Looked like both teams wanted this game badly. Wade, Bosh, Anderson, Noah, Butler, Gibson, Augustin and Hinrich were all playing their asses off. Lebron might have been an exception and he's a big exception. Whether he just wasn't up for this game or Butler took him out of his game, James appeared to be out of sorts...poor baby. Does this make the Bulls better than the Heat? Of course not. It was just a regular season game...a very freakin' exciting and fun regular season game.
Joakim Noah, Bulls drop Heat in OT; LeBron James held to 17 Joakim Noah and Jimmy Butler understand it. The real victory for the Chicago Bulls will come when they're knocking the Miami Heat out of the playoffs, not during the regular season -- no matter how charged the atmosphere is. Even so, they'll take this. Noah had 20 points and 12 rebounds, D.J. Augustin scored 22 and the Chicago Bulls beat the Miami Heat 95-88 in overtime Sunday after Butler blocked LeBron James at the end of regulation. Read more http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400489807
