NEW YORK — For reasons of both desire and necessity, the Bulls would prefer that their first-round playoff series with the Nets doesn’t return to Chicago.
For Joakim Noah and Kirk Hinrich, it must have seemed like it was 2009 all over again. For Nate Robinson, it was a moment he must have dreamed about since his childhood in Seattle.
It wasn’t quite a masterpiece, as the beginning and end left much to be desired, but the Bulls’ defense took things to another level Thursday night at the United Center, bouncing back from one of
Marco Belinelli has totaled 31 minutes in the first two games of the Bulls’ first-round matchup with the Brooklyn Nets, but he’s making his minutes count.



















