Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET on TNT, the Eastern Conference champion Cavaliers will open up their season in Chicago against the Bulls with a very special guest scheduled to be on hand, U.S. president Barack Obama. Fans can live stream the game online free by clicking this link. Bulls fans can find the radio broadcast on ESPN 1000, while Cavs fans may do likewise on WTAM 1100.
The Cavaliers enter the season banged up. Guards Kyrie Irving and Iman Shumpert are ruled out, while LeBron James, Timofey Mozgov, and Anderson Varejao are playing through injuries. Because of that, and because James is entering his 13th NBA season, he isn’t placing too much weight on the opener, even against a hated rival.
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"We're not going to put too much on the first game of the season," James said. "We've put in a lot of work over the last few weeks, and you can only try to get healthy, work your habits, work your rhythm and our last few practices have been very good. But you don't put too much onus on if this will be the team that we'll be long-term tomorrow."
The Bulls, meanwhile, enter the action with a brand new coach (Fred Hoiberg) and a host of talent. Hoiberg will spend much of the early part of the season figuring out some kind of rotation for his deep roster, so the Bulls fans see tonight may be drastically different in the near future.
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The Bulls’ big man rotation will be at the top of the list. Hoiberg has to juggle minutes for Joakim Noah, Pau Gasol, Taj Gibson, Nikola Mirotic, and rookie Bobby Portis, who was very impressive in the preseason.
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