NBA game of the week: Chicago at Boston, Sunday

By Ben Bolch

Feb. 11, 2012 12 AM PT

CHICAGO AT BOSTON, 12:30 p.m. PST Sunday. TV: Channel 7.

The Celtics aren’t dead yet. A season that was on life support last month, when they were four games under .500 and General Manager Danny Ainge acknowledged a willingness to trade core players, was revived when Boston won nine of 10 before back-to-back losses to the Lakers (in overtime) and Toronto. Chicago has the NBA’s best record, and Derrick Rose and Luol Deng are All-Stars, giving the Bulls multiple players in the midseason showcase for the first time since 1997. Rose, however, may not play Sunday because of a back injury that sidelined him Friday at Charlotte and limited him to 33 minutes, combined, in the previous two games. Chicago won, 88-79, last month in Boston.

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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