Boozer scores 24 points, Bulls beat Nets 109-87

Chicago is 4-2 six games into a nine-game road trip that is the Bulls' longest of the season.

Starting shooting guard Anthony Morrow missed the game due to the death of his grandmother, while Brook Lopez, Damion James, Mehmet Okur, MarShon Brooks and DeShawn Stevenson were out with injuries.

Morrow is expected to return to the team for Wednesday's game against the Pistons.

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With the game all but decided when the final quarter began, the announced 15,327 in attendance repeatedly chanted for Bulls power forward Brian Scalabrine, who played the first four years of his career in New Jersey.

He received a loud, sustained ovation when he checked in with 2:06 remaining, and when he made a jumper from the left corner.

NOTES: New Jersey wore its American Basketball Association blue jerseys for the first of the five Hardwood Classics Nights the organization has scheduled for this season. . Chicago guard Richard Hamilton missed his fifth straight game with a thigh injury. He did not make the trip to Newark because of "personal issue's he's taking care of," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said.