FINALS REPORT

As if the high score wasn’t bad enough, the Bulls also were goofing off on the bench for everyone to see. Michael Jordan and Ron Harper were giggling at the fan limbo contest on the giant scoreboard screen, with Jordan even joining in at one point.

Jordan also threw a towel in NBC commentator Ahmad Rashad’s face.

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The Bulls got a few unexpected--and unwanted--souvenirs from the Delta Center.

Utah Jazz fans tossed change at the Bulls as they left the court at halftime of Game 2 on Friday and again after the game. Coach Phil Jackson said Chicago’s bench also was pelted with coins during the third quarter.

“The fans are brutal,” Jackson said before Sunday’s Game 3 at the United Center. “It’s not just an auditory thing, it’s a physical thing that you take--the beating out there when you’re playing in Salt Lake.”

Jackson said he was hit in the foot and in the back, and trainer Chip Schaefer was hit with a coin, too. Jackson mentioned the flying objects to the referees, but they decided not to say anything for fear it would only encourage the Utah fans.

That’s just one more reason for the Bulls to make a clean sweep of Games 3-5 at home, Jackson said.

“No one wants to go back to Salt Lake. You just don’t want to go back and put yourself in those arenas,” he said. “We’re just putting ourselves back in the lions’ den if we go back out there again.”