Rip Hamiltion didn’t play due to a groin injury. Luol Deng (11 points on 4-for-12 shooting) wasn’t on top of his game. Derrick Rose bricked his first five shots and finished the night 4-for-10 from the field. And the Bulls beat the Grizzlies by 40 points. Other guys stepped up. Carlos Boozer spent his floor time in […]
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Derrick Rose is locked in…
…for five years and $94 million dollars. Well, okay, not quite yet. The deal hasn’t been finalized yet. But trust me: it will be. Derrick Rose is the future of the Bulls. And management is going to make sure he’s not going anywhere. We all knew that was the case, and GM Gar Forman has […]
Bulls-Pacers: Return of the Preview
Chicago takes on Indiana tonight in something called “professional basketball.” It’s a rematch of round one of last year’s playoffs which the Bulls won 4-1. But that series was much more hard fought than that number makes it seem. Going into the fourth quarter of those games Chicago was down seven in Game one, tied […]
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Christmas has come early
It’s not officially official. It still has to be ratified by the owners and players. It is, as David Stern pointed out, “subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations.” But a tentative agreement has been reached to end the cursed 149-day lockout and begin a 48-game season on December 25. By the way, the proposed […]
Welcome to Nuclear Winter
What a mess. What a crazy, dysfunctional, ridiculous mess. The 2011-2012 NBA season has been nuked. Blown all to hell because a bunch of rich people couldn’t agree how to carve up a big old money pie. As ESPN’s Marc Stein reported: As a labor standoff spanning nearly five months plunged into chaos, NBA commissioner […]
Chicago’s front office: Still workin’
Did you know that, in an alternate reality, the Bulls were supposed to open the 2011-12 season today? Only, instead of facing off against the reigning league champions in Dallas, the Bulls players are doing, well, who knows what? According to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, the ongoing NBA lockout hasn’t meant extra chillax […]
It’s official: Two weeks will be lost
The first two weeks of the 2011-12 NBA season… …never to be. And that may be just the beginning. According to NBA commissioner David Stern: “We remain very, very apart on all issues. With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what’s left of the season.” Stern apparently expects the players to blink […]
Can the Bulls make it back to the Eastern Conference Finals?
Edit: Major facepalm, folks. I wrote Rashard Lewis when I meant Hedo Turkoglu. My bad. That was the lead topic in a recent ESPN 5-on-5 debate about the Central Division. Of course, the question assumes there will be a 2011-12 season. It also flies in the face of many unknowns. Like what effects the new […]
Speedy Stormy Rose
That’s D-Rose’s new nickname. In some parts of the world. According to the Focus Taiwan News Channel: “Derrick Rose, the NBA’s youngest Most Valuable Player (MVP) in history, was seen happily receiving a new Chinese nickname on Saturday during a two-day visit to Taiwan. Chosen by Taiwanese fans through an online poll recently, the nickname ‘Biao […]