On Wednesday night, the once-beloved former Bull was wearing a Grizzlies jersey in a 122-110 loss to the Bulls at the United Center but still doing what he loves to do — and doing it on his own terms in a comeback season. “I just didn’t want to leave the game like that,’’ Noah said. “I feel like I worked too hard my whole life to end it like that, and I wanted to. I hadn’t had peace on the court in years, and I wasn’t enjoying playing basketball anymore, and I’ve always been somebody who loved basketball, loved to compete, loved to be in the locker room with my teammates. So I wanted to find that again, and I worked my ass off to be in this position.”
