Bulls teammate Zach LaVine was going to set the screen, and if second-year Knicks guard Quentin Grimes was going to switch to DeRozan, he was going to school. All 22-years-old of him.
Grimes switched, and it was time to pay tuition.
Thanks to a cold-blooded 22-footer from DeRozan with just 0.1 second left in the game, the Bulls (14-18) took a big bite out of the Big Apple, beating the Knicks 118-117, as Christmas came early.
DeRozan wouldn’t have even had a chance to be in that position if New York was better at the free throw line, with Grimes missing two with 1:06 left in the game and then Jalen Brunson missing both of his free throws with 6.