
At halftime on a night the Bulls set records and honored another, Michael Jordan told a raucous sellout crowd this: “You guys are in store for a lot more championships.” Later in the Bulls’ postgame locker room, an unimpressed team downplayed the franchise-record 18 3-pointers, the pulling into a virtual tie with the Celtics for the Eastern Conference’s top playoff seed and especially the 118-100 blowout of the Jazz. Why? The Bulls allowed 59 second-half points and their first opponent to crack 90 in 10 games.