CHICAGO – The Chicago Bulls built another big lead, and the Detroit Pistons were rallying. Sound familiar?

This time, there was no collapse.

Luol Deng scored 25 points, Kirk Hinrich and Ben Gordon added 19 apiece, and the Bulls hung on to beat Detroit 102-87 in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday afternoon and avoid a sweep.

“I don’t care who it is, we are better than being swept in four games,” Ben Wallace said. “We just have to come out and fight.”

Unlike Game 3, when the Bulls saw a 19-point lead dissolve into a seven-point loss, Chicago withstood a late push by Detroit.

The Bulls outscored the Pistons 27-13 in the third quarter to turn a seven-point halftime lead into a 77-56 advantage going into the fourth.

They didn’t flinch when Chauncey Billups hit two free throws with 3:55 left to cut it to 87-80, or when he answered Gordon’s 3-pointer with one of his own. That made it 90-83 with 2:46 remaining, but the Bulls hung on against a Pistons team that had won 12 of 13 closeout games.

“I think the feeling was we knew the run was coming,” Hinrich said. “You feel like the shift in momentum. We just needed to take a deep breath and just keep what we were doing to get there – moving the ball, keeping an up-tempo game and getting stops.”

Jazz 115, Warriors 101

OAKLAND, Calif. – Carlos Boozer and the Jazz shoved and scraped to slow down the Warriors – and then Derek Fisher put a sweet finish on a victory that put Utah on the brink of the Western Conference finals.

Boozer had 34 points and 12 rebounds as the Jazz handed the eighth-seeded Warriors their first home loss of the postseason, 115-101 Sunday night to put Utah up 3-1 in their second-round playoff series.

Fisher scored 14 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter for the surprising Jazz, who can clinch their first trip to the conference finals since 1998 with a victory at home in Game 5 Tuesday night.

Deron Williams had 20 points and 13 assists, as the Jazz finally solved the riddle of Oracle Arena, where the underdog Warriors won their first four playoff home games with the uptempo offense.

and fan support that dazzled the nation.