Surprised this wasn't up, but It is easter. SO first off, Happy Easter everyone.

Its 57-53 Chicagowith 1:52 left in the 1st half. Deng has played tremendous off the bench. Has at least 15 points.

We win and we are in the playoffs.

At the half in Miami. 58-53 Bulls.

Luol Deng turns 21 today and hopefully he can get a playoff birth for his present. 17pts, 2 boards, 1 assist.

Bulls up by 12 against Miami with a little over a minute left in the 3rd quarter.

Bulls up 14 going into the 4th quarter. We are 12 minutes from the playoffs (potentially at least).

Schenser has scored our last 4 points ; You all can say what you want, but Luke is going to develop into a quality big (maybe off the bench, but he'll still be a quality backup).

ah what an awesome game. GO BULLS! PLAYOFFS ARE NEAR.

spiff, Noc just picked up his 5th foul. That was bullshit. Noc cleanly blocked that too.

Edit: Refs changed the call to Luke, thankfully.

Heat cut this to 11.

Crap, Noc picks up his 5th now trying to get an offensive board.

MALIK with another big bucket to make it an 11 pt game.

Now Kaptain Kirk

Holy crap...what a shot by Luol Deng. RIDICULOUS. POssible 3 point play coming now. I hope he's ok.

Deng misses but it was called a flagrant so he gets one more and I think we get the ball.

So thats a 3 pt play and we got room to make it a 5 or 6 pt play.

I love it...Hinrich draws the foul. Playing agressive, not settling.

Nice effort by Tyson and we are going to get a 2nd posession out of this. We are up by 10 and each team has led by 15 at one point in this game.

Since talking to myself hsa been good luck in this thread...What a block by Tys.

Kirk with a layup gives us a 12 pt lead with 4:36 left.

I'm putting this game in the Fridge. 14 point lead, our ball, 2:30 left.

Tyson puts it in strong making it a 16 point lead.

Bulls just put the scrubs in, we are up 21 with 1:21 left. PLAYOFFS HERE WE COME!!!

2 years in a row

24 NOW

Luol with an excellent statement game against the #2 seed in the East. Yeah Antoine Walker got his points, but he gave them all back to Deng on teh other end. Awesome win for the Bulls over a semi-interested Heat team, but we will take it.

Thanks ChiSoxFn for doing the pbp. I would've joined you but I was in and out.