Chicago Bulls, playing without Zach LaVine and Lonzo Ball, can’t pull off a buzzer-beater, falling to the Boston Celtics 114-112

DeMar DeRozan seemed poised for another miracle with the final handful of seconds ticking off the clock in Boston on Saturday night.

DeRozan already had scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to lead a short-handed Chicago Bulls team within punching distance of the Boston Celtics. He already had dished a pass to Nikola Vucevic for a wide-open 3-pointer to take the lead, then launched himself inside the arc for the rebound.

And he already had done this before in spectacular fashion — hit the buzzer-beater, won the game, sucked the air out of an unfriendly arena, sent fans off the edge of couch