Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A Silver lining?

The NBA is a big-boy league, so there's no such thing as a moral victory. The Bulls' 96-87 loss Tuesday to the Los Angeles Lakers at the United Center goes down as just that -- a loss, their 11th in their last 13 games.

But even though they lost, the Bulls think they snapped out of their recent funk and would have beaten a lot of teams with their performance.

Just not the defending NBA champion Lakers on a night when Kobe Bryant exploded for 42 points despite playing with a broken index finger on his right (shooting) hand.

''Even though we lost, this was a winning-type effort,'' Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich said. ''I thought everybody played hard. You could tell there …

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