The Bulls Saturday despite losing 114-109 to the Cleveland Cavaliers played one of their best, artistic, appealing and most spirited games of the season. They had a rollicking 30 assists on 41 baskets, a career high 10 assists for Cameron Payne along with 13 points. They lapped the Cavaliers with 21 fast break points, Cristiano Felicio with his first double/double of the season while diving on the floor more than the kids wiping up the wet spots, repeatedly prying away loose balls.
And in the sentence most unlikely to be written in the NBA this season, Denzel Valentine cancelled out LeBron James.