NBA schedule and results: Bulls beat the Thunder on E’Twaun Moore’s game-winner

How did this happen?

I asked Oleh Kosel from SB Nation’s Pelicans site The Bird Writes to explain who has been the most important person keeping the Pelicans alive in the playoff hunt. His answer: general manager Dell Demps for finding all those guys.

Portland Trail Blazers guard Wesley Matthews tore his Achilles tendon in the third quarter of the Trail Blazers’ game against the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night, the team announced. He has been ruled out for the season.

Here’s a look at the play:

This was so cool by the Bulls:

They inbounded directly to Pau Gasol in the post. Pau recognized the double before it even arrived, kicking a touch pass out to E’Twaun Moore, who delivered the ONIONS to sink the Thunder and make Steve Smith giggle like Winnie the Pooh.

Kirk Hinrich’s quarterback rating is sinking by the second:

This is what Kenny Smith calls a “spine tingler”:

That wasn’t blocked. Dun The Lesser just slammed the ball directly into the side of the rim.

Pau con el torbellino!

He’s still got it.

After a yearlong battle with leukemia, Craig Sager is in Chicago and back on TNT for Thursday’s broadcast of Thunder-Bulls. Looking characteristically fly, too:

Everyone in the building and on the broadcast is so happy to have him back: