SACRAMENTO — As Jimmy Butler walked gingerly to the Houston Rockets’ training room with longtime Rockets trainer Keith Jones last Friday night, Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg sat in his office in the locker room and called Michael Carter-Williams into it.
Within a couple minutes, Carter-Williams’ face lit up. Carter-Williams was back in the rotation as Butler’s right toe contusion put him out and the Bulls’ third-year guard was back with another chance to definitively be back in the land of the living.
And thus, the Bulls’ game of point guard musical chairs has taken a new beat with Carter-Williams putting together his best stretch of back-to-back games since being acquired late in the preseason.