K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune reports: They sat in the postgame locker room in Denver sharing chicken wings and witty banter about an experience neither had tasted before and neither wants to again.

Bulls first-round draft picks Tyson Chandler and Eddy Curry had just received the box-score designation of DNP-CD?"Did Not Play, Coach's Decision"?in the seventh exhibition game of their young careers.

Chandler seemed to speak for both teenagers when he was asked if coach Tim Floyd had warned him beforehand of such a possibility.

"Nope," Chandler said. "But I figured it out when there were a couple of minutes left. ? I guess it's something we're going to have to get used to."