Every game doesn’t need to be close.
After all, with 34 regular-season games still left to play, fingernails grow back only so quickly.
That’s why on a night that the Oklahoma City Thunder limped into the United Center severely short-handed, it was about time the home team treated a visitor rudely.
Thanks to Zach LaVine registering his third 40-plus point game of the season, as well as the new-look starting lineup putting the Thunder in a huge first-quarter hole, the Bulls (18-20) won their second straight game, beating coach Billy Donovan’s former team 123-102.
“The guy was unbelievable,’’ Donovan said of LaVine.