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On Veterans Day, NBA veteran Mike Dunleavy was the story of the Chicago Bulls’ 96-81 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday at the United Center. Well, he was before Bulls guard Derrick Rose suffered an injury and sat out the game’s final 3:15.
Luvabulls dancer Bethany was featured on the United Center scoreboard at Monday’s game.
Rose apparently suffered the injury when he drove to the basket for a layup with 3:39 left to give the Bulls an 83-76 lead. Until then, Dunleavy’s performance was one of the highlights in a night that didn’t have many — well, other than the performances by te Luvabulls dance team and by the singing group 4Troops, which performed the national anthem and also appeated as the halftime entertainment.
“He’ll be evaluated [Tuesday], but it looks like a monor right hamstrong,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said of Rose. “It appears to be minor.”
Well, there is major concern among Bulls fans, even if the hamstring tweak is minor.
“It’s nothing big at all,” Rose said. “I’m still able to walk around, move around the way I want to. Just a little sore.”
The highly anticipated first meeting of Rose and Cavs point guard Kyrie Irving failed to materialize. Rose had 16 points on 8-of-21 shooting from the field. He also had seven assists and zero turnovers for his first turnover-free game this season. Irving scored 12 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter when the Bulls outscored the Cavs 32-21. Irving was 5-of-19 from the field.
Sluggish would be one adjective to describe the contest — with apologies to any slugs in the audience reading this. Maybe the crowd was exhausted from celebrating Veterans Day or something. Not many fans enthusiastically voiced their excitement. Then again, the Bulls didn’t give them much reason to cheer.
Among the exceptions to that was Dunleavy, who had 15 points on 4-of-6 shooting (2-of-3 from three-point range). Carlos Boozer led the Bulls with 17 oints on 7-of-11 from the field).
“We had some chances to break it open, early on, each quarter,” Dunleavy said. “They just hung in there. Fortunately in the fourth quarter, we were able to pull away.”
Dunleavy, a free agent whom the Bulls signed in the offseason, had 10 points in the fourth quarter.
“I’m getting there,” he said of feeling comfortable with his new teammates and the system that Thibodeau has. “It’s an easy group to get along with and feel comfortable with. I’m getting more comfortable here in the United Center and getting more comfortable in every which way on both ends of the court.”
Some video from the Bulls-Cavs contest and postgame interviews:
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