After playing just 29 games last season after signing a five-year, $31.2 million deal, Bulls forward Eddie Robinson tries to be on the court as much as possible.  So after knocking knees with teammate Lonny Baxter practice on Monday it was Robinson who laughed at a suggestion that his sore left knee might keep him out of Tuesday night's game against the Orlando Magic.

But as K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune reports Robinson did miss the game, and neither he or his coach consider it funny.

"He didn't feel like he could run and play," Cartwright said. "So there it is."

Johnson writes that all the negativity suggesting that Robinson is injury prone is unfair.  'When Orlando's Grant Hill misses a game, as he did Tuesday, Hill gets sympathy for what he has endured. When Robinson misses a game, he gets questions,' writes Johnson.

"It's hurting, I can tell you that," Robinson said.  "I'll play as soon as I can."