Play on: NBA Basketball
Date: Wednesday, May-04-2011
Stadium: United Center in Chicago, IL
Game time: 20:00 EST
Derrick Rose should be fine. Time will tell if the Chicago Bulls will be, too.
The NBA's MVP went through a full practice Tuesday, one day after twisting his left ankle in the closing seconds of a 103-95 loss to the Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Rose expects to be ready for Game 2 on Wednesday.
"It's fine, it's fine," he said at his MVP news conference in Lincolnshire, Ill., a few miles from the team's practice facility. "Actually, the medicine that they gave me was great. I woke up this morning feeling great, went to practice, worked out after afterward."
Coach Tom Thibodeau said his star point guard "didn't have any swelling" and told him he's fine -- encouraging news for the Bulls. Their performance on Monday night was not.
The top seed after winning a league-leading 62 games, Chicago delivered a dud in Game 1 after being pushed in a tough five-game series by Indiana in the opening round. Now, they're in a hole against a team that hadn't won a second-round game since the 1990s.
"A lot of people have written us off even before the series began, and we've been there before," Hawks coach Larry Drew said. "Now that we've been in these situations enough times, we respond totally different to them. We don't listen to what's being said. We look at and pay attention to details now a little bit better than we have in the past. I do believe that this team is a little bit more hungry."
Watch Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls Live Stream, Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls Schedule, Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls Highlights, Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls Live Score, Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls Video Streaming, Watch NBA free online live streaming. Hope you can enjoy to watch live Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls online stream
