27 stresses; Video highlights of Chicago Bulls ending the Miami Heat winning streak

It ended a little before we all expected it to, but the Chicago Bulls were worthy winners of last night’s epic clash with LeBron and Miami.

Just six games away from equalling the LA Lakers all-time winning streak, most people expected Miami to notch up win number 28 against the Chicago Bulls in Chicago last night.

With Derrick Rose a long-term absentee, the Bulls were also without Joakim Noah and Marco Belinelli so LeBron James and the rest of the Heat were expected to win, not win big, but win.

Once again they employed their tactic of starting slow and cranking it up but the Bulls met them head on in a game as physical, and intense, as a play-off game.

In fact, the game was so physical LeBron got sick of all the contact he was getting and barged into Carlos Boozer, earning himself a flagrant 1 foul. In GAA it wouldn’t even be commented on but in the NBA...

This dunk by Jimmy Butler was probably the pick of the night’s slams (below) and full game highlights of the 101-97 defeat are at the bottom of the page.

The Heat are still unbackable favourites to retain the NBA title (Evens this morning) so once they get over the disappointment of falling short of the record run, they will dust themselves off and concentrate on the ultimate goal.

We just hope they encounter the Bulls on the way. We would love seven games like last night.