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CHICAGO - There was no getting around it for Pau Gasol, no denying this was one strange and emotional night. Yellow Gold Swell Bottle .He put those feelings aside and delivered another strong performance.Gasol had 23 points and 13 rebounds against his former team, and the Chicago Bulls beat Los Angeles 113-93 on Thursday with Lakers star Kobe Bryant resting his sore body.Its weird. Obviously, its an emotional game because you find yourself on the opposite side of the team that you played for for so many years and weve been through so much, Gasol said.He helped Bryant lead the Lakers to two championships during his six-plus seasons in Los Angeles. Gasol left for Chicago in the summer, hoping to make another run at a title, despite Bryants pleas to stay. And on nights like these, its not hard to envision the Bulls advancing in the playoffs.Jimmy Butler scored 21 points, and Derrick Rose added 20 points and six assists to help the Bulls win their season-high fifth straight.With Bryant missing his second straight game, the Lakers were unable to pull off another upset. They stunned Golden State on Tuesday night but came up short against the Central division leaders.The Bulls hung on after a 16-point second-quarter lead dwindled to two in the third. Chicago outscored the Lakers 30-16 in the fourth, sending them to their fourth loss in five games.Gasol was 9 of 14 from the field in his first game against Los Angeles as a Bull.Nikola Mirotic and Aaron Brooks each came off the bench to score 13 points, and the Bulls outrebounded the Lakers 57-39.It didnt hurt that Bryant was watching from the sideline in a dark red jacket even if the Lakers were coming off a big victory without him.Carlos Boozer scored 14 points and got booed in his return to Chicago, as he often did during his four seasons with the Bulls. The Bulls used the amnesty clause to cut him last summer and create the salary-cap space to bring in Gasol and add depth to the roster.It was weird playing against them, Boozer said. They were like my brothers out there, but at some point you have to put the emotions and feeling aside and try to win a basketball game.Wesley Johnson led Los Angeles with 19 points. Ed Davis added 13 points and 14 rebounds. Jordan Hill finished with 16 points, but the Lakers shot about 39 per cent overall and went 5 of 16 from 3-point range.They will likely have to go without Bryant again when they visit Dallas on Friday night.Bryant said his knees Achilles tendons, feet and back were all bothering him, and it is unlikely he will play against the Mavericks.The 36-year-old Bryant, in his 19th NBA season, entered Thursday third in the league in scoring at 24.6 points per game. He passed Michael Jordan for third place on the career scoring list Dec. 14 at Minnesota.Hes like a brother to me, said Gasol, who spent a few hours with Bryant on Wednesday.The Bulls looked as if they were on their way to an easy victory up 16 in the second, but an 11-point halftime lead quickly shrunk to two when Los Angeles started the third on an 11-2 run. Chicago was up 81-77 in the closing seconds when Gasol drove for a layup to start a 10-2 run that bumped it back up to 12 early in the fourth.I think that right now there is a belief, a lot more than there was a couple of weeks ago, Joakim Noah said. As a player, theres nothing better than that belief that when were on and were competing nobody can mess with us. Thats the feeling were starting to get.TIP-INSLakers: Bryant said Jordan had a simple message after he passed him on the NBAs scoring list. Go get Karl, Bryant said referring to Karl Malone. The former Utah great is second with 36,928 points. Bryant has 32,365.Bryant on passing Jordan on the NBAs scoring list: It was more of a thankful feeling to Michael and the players came before because Ive learned so much from them. And I dont say that lightly. Ive literally just stole (stuff) from them — like spin moves and pull-ups. Its not me passing these players. Its us. Ive literally taken things from their games and made them my own.Bulls: G Kirk Hinrich missed his second straight game because of tendinitis in his left knee and remains day to day.UP NEXTLakers: Visit Dallas on Friday night.Bulls: Play New Orleans at home on Saturday night. Cheap Swell Bottle .com) - The Buffalo Bills will return to the friendly confines of Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday when they welcome the upstart Cleveland Browns to town. Swell Bottles Near Me . 15-23, the Ottawa Senators will by hoping to avoid going five straight games without a victory for the first time since a 0-3-2 drought from Oct. http://www.swellbottlesales.com/ . City has reached new heights under manager Manuel Pellegrini as they transition from big spending/immediate impact to perennial contender. Yaya Toures seeming discontent Tuesday may complicate that, as does the little issue of Financial Fair Play.BERLIN - Canada will be the third seed in womens team pursuit at the upcoming Winter Olympics after a fifth-place finish on Sunday at a long-track speedskating World Cup event. Winnipegs Brittany Schussler, Ottawas Ivanie Blondin and Reginas Kali Christ posted a six-lap time of three minutes 2.81 seconds, missing out on a bronze medal by 0.77 seconds. The Netherlands won the event in 2:58.19, ahead of Poland and South Korea. Canadas roster for the team pursuit at the Sochi Olympics in February will be decided after the speed-skating trials in Calgary in late December and early January. Christine Nesbitt, from London, Ont., is usually the fourth skater for the Canadian womens team pursuit. However, the 2010 Olympic 1,000-metre champion was not in Berlin this week. The Canadian women were fifth at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and won silver in 2006 in Turin, Italy. Canadas men secured a spot in the pursuit event on Saturday. Individually, Heather Richardson led a 1-2 for the United States for her third win from four races in the womens 1,000. Richardson finished in 1:14.51 to beat compatriot Brittany Bowe by 0.91 seconds, with Russias Olga Fatkulina 0.98 off the pace in third. Calgarys Kaylin Irvine recorded her first World Cup top 10 with a 1:16.07. That improves on her previous top World Cup finish, 12th in Astana, Kaazakhstan seven days earlier on Dec. Swell Bottle Sales. 1. "I felt like things Ive been working on in practice finally came to together for a whole race today." Irvine said. "Im very happy with it." Reginas Marsha Hudey was 16th in womens B 1,000 metres. It was Hudeys first World Cup race at that distance after six starts in the 500 metres in her first international season. In mens competition, Olympic champion Mo Tae-bum of South Korea edged Japans Joji Kato by two thousandths of a second to win the 500-metre event for the first time this season. Mo, who won the 1,000 on Saturday, clocked 34.876 seconds to deny Kato what would have been his second win of the season. Dutchman Michel Mulder was third, in 34.95, in the final World Cup before the Olympic Games in Sochi. William Dutton of Humboldt, Sask., placed 20th in the A 500 metres. Dutchman Jorrit Bergsma defeated compatriot Jan Blokhuijsen for his first win of the season in the mens 5,000. Overall leader Sven Kramer of the Netherlands didnt race and Bergsma took full advantage by clocking 6:14.82 to beat Blokhuijsen by 0.84 seconds. South Koreas Lee Seung-hoon was third in 6:16.12. Torontos Jordan Belchos finished 10th in the mens B 5,000 metre, followed by Mathieu Giroux of Pointe-aux-Trembles, Que., 18th, and Reginas Lucas Makowsky was 20th. ' ' '