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Based on the passage below. Who won the basketball game?
Game 5 of the 1997 basketball playoffs should have been the game that the Chicago
Bull lost. It should, in fact, have marked the Utah's Jazz's first NBA Championship
win. Michael Jordan, the Bull's start player, had spent the previous 24 hours
bedridden and dehydrated with what doctors had diagnosed as the stomach flu. He
had lost weight and had missed two key days of practice leading up the to the game.
It was a recipe for disaster.
But three hours before the start of Game 5, the best player in the history of
basketball suited up and appeared on the court.
Though Jordan was visibly weak in the first quarter, he scored 17 points by the
second putting the Bulls ahead at half time. However, while Jordan spent the third
quarter overcome by nausea and fatigue, Utah managed to reclaim the lead...
(To be continued)

Answer 1

Chicago Bulls

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the passage, the Chicago Bulls won the match because of several reasons.

First, the excerpt says "...should HAVE BEEN the game the Chicago Bulls lost" because their star player Michael Jordan was hospitalised because of a suspected stomach flu and he was dehydrated and missed two days of practice meaning that because of the fact that the Chicago Bulls did not have their star man operating optimally, they were supposed to lose.

The next line goes ahead to say that, "It SHOULD (in fact) HAVE marked the Utah's Jazz's first NBA Championship

win" meaning that because of the advantage of Chicago Bulls not having their star player at a hundred percent, Utah Jazz were slight favorites to win and should have in fact won, but apparently they didn't.

Finally, the tenses used in the passage indicate strongly that Utah Jazz failed to capitalise on the slight advantage they had and Chicago Bulls won the game.