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Parker and Portis make emotional return to United Center in Wizards' 134-125 win against Bulls

CHICAGO - It's not often a February regular-season game between two sub-.500 teams carries so much emotion.

But that's what happens when the Bulls and Wizards met just three days after trading players. It's what happens when the emotional player nicknamed "Crazy Eyes" is involved. And it's what happens when a proud player who signed as the premier offseason addition returns to talk about how his homecoming turned sour.

The Bulls aired a video tribute for Bobby Portis, he of the frothing intensity and crazy eyes, and Jabari Parker, the former Simeon High School

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