The Chicago Bulls look to even the series on Sunday when they visit the Washington Wizards for Game 4 of the 2014 NBA playoff. Tipoff is at 1:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Watch the live stream or listen to the radio broadcast via the links provided below.
Washington made their postseason debut on Friday at the Verizon Center for the fist time in six years. It was another close game, but the Wizards were unable to come away with their third win of the series and fell to the Bulls, 100-97.
Making matters more difficult for Washington on Sunday is the loss of Nene, whom the NBA suspended for one game after his altercation in Game 3 with Bulls guard Jimmy Butler.
"There's a lot of pushing and shoving and talking," Wizards coach Randy Wittman told the Associated Press on Saturday, before the NBA announced Nene's suspension. "We just have to be sure we're keeping our composure in that area. I don't want them stepping back at all from a physicality standpoint. Not at all. It just reaches that line, and we've got to know where that line is."
Nene pressed his forehead against Butler's as they were standing close together and put two hands around the back of Butler's neck. The league claimed Nene head-butted Butler and attempted to throw him down.
To some, Nene's ejection and subsequent suspension seemed unwarranted.
"Just like each one of us, he's a guy with a big ego," Wizards center Marcin Gortat said about Nene. "There's nobody in this locker room who's going to be pushed around like that. And that's just how he reacted. Does he deserve two technical fouls? I don't know. But at the end of the day, he got kicked out and we had to play without him."
Watch the live stream HERE, or listen to the radio broadcast HERE (CHI) and HERE (WAS).
