New Orleans Hornets @ Chicago Bulls

41-24, 18-15 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hornets NO	22	17	18	22	79
Bulls CHI	27	26	28	16	97

Chicago BullsBullsCHI

30-37, 20-11 Home

New Orleans Hornets

starters
David WestD. West
Rasual ButlerR. Butler
Julian WrightJ. Wright
Tyson ChandlerT. Chandler
Chris PaulC. Paul
bench
Sean MarksS. Marks
Hilton ArmstrongH. Armstrong
Ryan BowenR. Bowen
James PoseyJ. Posey
Peja StojakovicP. Stojakovic
Melvin ElyM. Ely
Antonio DanielsA. Daniels
Morris PetersonM. Peterson
Devin BrownD. Brown
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
34	10	4-14	0-0	2-2	4	1	2	1	2	3	1	2	-20
34	10	5-12	0-5	0-0	3	0	3	0	1	0	3	1	-21
22	7	3-4	0-0	1-2	3	0	2	1	0	1	2	1	+4
36	4	2-6	0-0	0-0	9	0	3	0	2	5	4	1	-18
36	29	13-20	0-0	3-3	6	6	1	0	0	1	5	2	-18
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	6	2-3	0-0	2-4	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	3	0
14	2	1-5	0-0	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	+2
24	4	2-7	0-3	0-0	6	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	-23
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	1	0-0	0-0	1-2	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	+1
12	4	2-4	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
10	2	1-4	0-3	0-0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	+12
4	0	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-9
	79	35-81	0-11	9-13	43	10	13	3	5	19	24	13
		43%	0%	69%

Chicago Bulls

starters
Tyrus ThomasT. Thomas
John SalmonsJ. Salmons
Joakim NoahJ. Noah
Derrick RoseD. Rose
Ben GordonB. Gordon
bench
Tim ThomasT. Thomas
Linton JohnsonL. Johnson
Luol DengL. Deng
Jerome JamesJ. James
Brad MillerB. Miller
Aaron GrayA. Gray
Lindsey HunterL. Hunter
Kirk HinrichK. Hinrich
Anthony RobersonA. Roberson
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
23	8	4-11	0-0	0-0	4	0	1	1	1	3	1	4	-3
36	24	9-15	5-8	1-2	3	2	2	0	1	0	3	0	+18
30	6	3-9	0-0	0-0	9	4	0	1	0	5	4	3	+13
34	4	2-9	0-2	0-0	4	7	3	1	0	1	3	1	+11
38	27	11-17	3-7	2-2	4	5	0	1	0	1	3	2	+25
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	8	3-6	2-3	0-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	+16
3	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-5
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	15	6-10	0-1	3-3	9	4	1	1	1	4	5	2	+17
3	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-5
3	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-5
17	3	1-3	0-1	1-2	3	3	0	1	0	0	3	4	+13
3	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-5
	97	40-85	10-25	7-11	39	25	7	6	3	14	25	17
		47%	40%	64%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

CHI wins season

2-0

CHI

Game 1•@ NO

Final

107

Game 2•@ CHI

Final

Game Information

Chicago, IL

Referee:Ken Mauer

Referee:Bennie Adams

Referee:David Guthrie

Eastern Conference

Central	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	41	13	.759	-	W4
Cleveland	36	21	.632	6.5	W7
Milwaukee	24	30	.444	17	W3
Chicago	24	32	.429	18	L7
Indiana	15	42	.263	27.5	L2

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