One of the two teams that played at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Saturday is fighting for a playoff spot in a battle that could come down to the last day of the season. The other has clinched the worst record in the league and the most ping-pong balls for a lottery pick they don’t even own. Watching the Bulls and the Nets on Saturday afternoon, it was at times hard to tell which was which.
The Bulls trailed by 15 in the first half, battled back to down six by halftime, put up a monster 37-point third quarter and blew a 10-point lead with less than four minutes left in regulation to fall to the Nets, 107-106, and cast their playoff hopes back into doubt once again.