The Bulls close their season series with the Indiana Pacers Friday night. Both teams will enter the contest banged up, and not for the first time.
On Nov. 3, the Pacers toppled a mostly healthy Bulls squad 108-95 without Myles Turner, Domantas Sabonis or Victor Oladipo. On Jan. 10, Indiana racked up 70 points in the paint sans Sabonis and Malcolm Brogdon in the Bulls’ second game without Wendell Carter Jr. (who went on to miss 22 with a severe ankle sprain) and Otto Porter Jr. And on Jan. 29, the Bulls — without Carter, Porter and Lauri Markkanen — squandered a seven-point lead in the final four minutes of regulation to fall to the Pacers 116-105 in overtime.