The last time the Chicago Bulls beat the Atlanta Hawks in a meaningful regular season game, Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah were still on the roster and the Bulls were the Cleveland Cavaliers’ biggest threat to not reaching the NBA Finals.
I’d be lying to you if I said things haven’t changed much since then, because they have.
Since then, Rose and Noah landed in New York this past summer with the Knicks, Tom Thibodeau is coaching the Minnesota Timberwolves after a season away from the NBA, and the Bulls are struggling just to make the postseason this year.