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The Chicago Bulls will start training camp next week after a confusing offseason that left plenty of questions. Aside from the will they/won't they with Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic, the Bulls have a number of questions that will start to be answered next week. For now, they appear ready to go with the roster they have and I have questions. 

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Yet another terrible start doomed the Blackhawks Friday night as they were routed 5-1 by the Minnesota Wild. The Wild opened the scoring - like most Blackhawks opponents this season - when Calen Addison cycled down low before backhanding the puck to Marcus Foligno, who stuffed it home to put the Wild up 1-0 just 2:58 in the first period. Ryan Hartman made it 2-0 after a brilliant pass from Kirill Kaprizov that went through three Blackhawks players in the slot. Absolutely no one was covering Hartman. Possibly in an attempt to change the momentum in favor of the Blackhawks, Riley Stillman dropped the gloves against Brandon Duhaime during a faceoff. Then Connor Dewar and MacKenzie Entwistle decided they wanted in on the fighting action shortly after. The latter two received a game misconduct each and were ejected from the game for an altercation after the whistle.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks displayed a championship mentality by beating a quality opponent even when their shots didn't fall. Of course, it helped that the Chicago Bulls were also ice cold from the field. Antetokounmpo had 30 points and 12 rebounds to help the Bucks overcome Grayson Allen's ejection and beat the Bulls 94-90 on Friday night. Both teams shot below 40% overall and posted their worst 3-point percentages of the season. "At the end of the day, a win is a win," Antetokounmpo said. "We did the right things. We created good habits tonight." DeMar DeRozan scored 35 points but missed a 3-pointer that would have put the Bulls ahead with 23 seconds left. Milwaukee's Khris Middleton made two free throws with 15.8 seconds remaining to close out the scoring. 
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Lusia Harris, who won three national championships at Delta State and scored the first points in Olympic women's basketball history in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 66, her family announced. A cause of death was not given. Harris was the first Black woman inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, in 1992. Her coach at Delta State, Margaret Wade, had been inducted in 1985. Harris was also drafted by the NBA's New Orleans Jazz in 1977, making her the first and only woman to be officially drafted by an NBA team. Harris, who had married her high school sweetheart while in college, didn't try out for the Jazz because she was pregnant. However, she did briefly play in the Women's Professional Basketball League in 1979-80. A native of Minter City, Mississippi, she put Delta State -- located in Cleveland, Mississippi -- on the map in women's basketball with titles in 1975, '76 and '77 in the AIAW era of the sport.
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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott apologized Tuesday via Twitter for his postgame comments regarding fans throwing bottles and debris at the officials after Sunday's wild-card loss to the San Francisco 49ers. A postgame question to Prescott on Sunday initially indicated the fans were throwing things at his teammates in anger, which he called, "sad." However, when he was told the objects were directed at the officials, he said, "Credit to them then. Credit to them." He was given a chance to walk the comments back at the end of his news conference and didn't. On Tuesday, he tweeted three times to his 1.4 million followers to apologize, writing: "I deeply regret the comments I made regarding the officials after the game on Sunday. I was caught up in the emotion of a disappointing loss and my words were uncalled for and unfair.
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The Rams had a 20-point lead on Arizona with 4 1/2 minutes left at raucous SoFi Stadium. Matthew Stafford's 13-year quest for his first playoff victory was all but complete after Los Angeles' dominant performance on both sides of the ball. The quarterback still took off running on third-and-long through the heart of the Cardinals' defense on a gleeful, perilous scramble that ultimately ended short of a first down.
Even while shouldering enormous postseason pressure, Stafford never forgot to have fun. He was strong enough to carry it all - and the Rams are riding him on to Tampa Bay. Stafford passed for 202 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score in his first playoff win, and the Rams roared out of the wild-card round with a 34-11 victory over Arizona on Monday night.
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The Memphis Grizzlies hosted the Chicago Bulls in their 20th consecutive Martin Luther King Jr. game on Monday. After a rough first quarter, the Grizzlies broke free at last, and almost doubled their first-quarter scoring output. The Grizzlies opened up a big lead and the game was casually moving until Ja Morant and Tony Bradley grabbed each others' jerseys and were tangled up. Steven Adams stepped in and carried the 6-foot-10, 248-pound Bradley like a loaf of bread. The FedExForum crowd laughed at the Adams replay, chanted MVP for Morant and the Grizzlies (31-15) defeated the Bulls 119-106.
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In one of their most exciting games of the season, the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Anaheim Ducks 3-0 Saturday night to bring their win streak to four games. The first period very was loose defensively, so it was surprising that neither team scored. The best chance for the Blackhawks was arguably late in the period when Jonathan Toews tried to go shortside, but Ryan Getzlaf hooked him just enough to prevent the Blackhawks captain from getting off a clean shot.
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Bengals Beat Raiders - Paul Brown Stadium nearly shook in triumph. The city of Cincinnati might have, too. Its latest hero, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, merely seemed to shrug after leading his team to its first playoff victory in 31 years, 26-19 over Las Vegas on Saturday in an AFC wild-card game. Burrow led an efficient offense that scored on six drives, Evan McPherson became the first rookie to make four field goals without a miss in a postseason debut, and Germaine Pratt sealed it with a fourth-down interception in the dying seconds. Click below to read more:  https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401326627

Bills Beat Patriots - The lingering sting of being embarrassed on home turf by the New England Patriots didn't sit well with defensive end Jerry Hughes and the Buffalo Bills. On Saturday night, the Bills did something about it by erasing any doubt of who now rules the AFC East. Josh Allen set a team playoff record with five touchdown passes, including two to Dawson Knox, and Devin Singletary ran for two scores in the first half of a 47-17 throttling of the division-rival Patriots in a wild-card playoff game. Click below to read more:  https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=4013266

Robert Williams hit a pair of free throws with 9.7 seconds left and the Boston Celtics scored the final eight points to edge the Chicago Bulls 114-112 on Saturday night. Williams, who tied it at 112 with two foul shots with 31 seconds to go, finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds. Boston rallied after trailing 112-106 with 1:57 to play. Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 23 points and 12 rebounds. Jaylen Brown scored 19 points and Dennis Schroder had 16 points and eight assists for Boston. Nikola Vucevic had 27 points for Chicago and rookie Ayo Dosunmu scored a career-high 21 points and added 10 assists. DeMar DeRozan, who missed a shot at the buzzer that could have tied it, scored 23.
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