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Guard Patrick Beverley just one factor in toughening up of the Bulls

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Bulls guard Patrick Beverley is one factor in the team’s recent 8-4 record, but there’s also a general toughness being shown that wasn’t there earlier this season.

PHILADELPHIA — Doc Rivers knows Chicago basketball all-too well.

The 76ers coach starred at Proviso East, and coming out of Marquette in 1983, thought the Bulls were going to draft their hometown kid.

It didn’t happen, and Rivers still talks about it with a hint of missed opportunity in his voice.

So he knows exactly what Patrick Beverley has meant to this current Bulls team, and what playing for the Bulls has meant to Beverley.