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 David West added 27 points for the Hornets and Tyson Chandler, who played five seasons for the Bulls before being traded before the 2006-07 season, was booed throughout the game and scored four points and had 16 rebounds.
Andres Nocioni led the Bulls with 28 points and Kirk Hinrich finished with 15 points.
After only scoring two points on 1-for-10 shooting in a win against Memphis on Saturday, Paul scored 10 points in the first half for the Hornets on 5-for-10 shooting.
Hornets starter Morris Peterson missed his second straight game with back spasms.
Chicago Bulls center Ben Wallace arrived late to pregame game warmups and was fined an undisclosed amount.
Notes: Chandler was not surprised by the dismissal of former Bulls coach Scott Skiles in December and the struggles of his former team. "I (saw) it coming. I knew it was a matter of a time before they had to make a coaching change just by looking at the players and looking at their eyes out there," Chandler said before the game. "It didn't look fun for them and you can't win games if you're not having fun out there." Chandler was only taken surprise when Bulls general manager John Paxson made the coaching change so early in the season. "Like I said, I knew it was about to come, I knew it was a matter of time, I didn't think it would come as soon. I thought it would be more close to the All-Star Break or something." ... Wallace scored nine points and had 16 rebounds.
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