Every Friday, Kelly Scaletta sits down to take a look at your reader submitted questions about the Chicago Bulls. To submit your questions to his mailbag by Thursday evenings shoot us a message via our contact form at the top right or click here. You think we should shutdown Noah for a while since this story […]
1. Deja Vu Right now as I’m sitting here typing away on my keyboard I’m listening to OK Go’s “Here We Go Again.” Not just because it’s a good and catchy song, but because I occasionally enjoy listening to music that fits the situation and/or my train of thought. And right now “Here we go again” […]
The NBA All-Defensive teams are usually an annual guarantee to cause uproar among NBA Twitter. How did Carlos Boozer get a vote? How did the Defensive Player of the Year not make First Team? Which declining legend will cease being grandfathered in for their respective sport’s defensive honor first: Kobe Bryant or Derek Jeter? This year, however, […]
Player: Joakim Noah Per game stats: 80 games played, 35.3 minutes per game, 12.6 points on 47.5% shooting, 11.3 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 2.4 turnovers, 1.2 steals, 1.5 blocks. The Good: Joakim had his best regular season as a pro ever. He managed to play 80 games on a heavy minutes load and lead the team […]
Tip: 1pm ET, Verizon Center, Washington D.C. The Bulls have taken a beating from the Washington Wizards over two of the first three games of this series. This afternoon they can deliver a punch of their own, drawing the series level and restoring homecourt advantage. Chicago avoided what amounts to elimination by winning Game 3 […]
After several weeks of award speculation and several hours of Chicago based writers tweeting out about their sources, it’s official- Joakim Noah is the 2013-2014 NBA Defensive Player of the Year. This is Noah’s first major individual award and one that caps what has been a spectacular season for the 29 year old center. […]
The following is a guest post submitted by Josh Planos, a writer at Fansided, SportsWunderkin, and the Pick and Roll. You can follow Josh at @JPlanos Among the most prevalent names circling the league before the annual award allocation are Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson. The linchpins of the Chicago Bulls’ defense have, in many […]
The Chicago Bulls used a barrage from behind the three-point line and a strong second half to blow past the Minnesota Timberwolves en route to their sixth consecutive win. Joakim Noah was the standout performer – how many times has that been written this season – as he recorded his fourth triple-double of the season […]
There’s a strange Groundhog Day-esque feeling that filters through the NBA in mid-late March as the season grinds inexorably closer to the Playoffs yet they never seem to get closer. Saturday night was one of those games. The Bulls and Sixers met for the second time this week and, as in the first meeting, the […]
We’ve seen this movie many times. The Bulls, devoid of true scorers, make just enough shots and just enough offensive plays to stay ahead while the defense makes the game pretty much unbearable for casual fans to watch. We got another rerun Saturday evening in Chicago. This time, the Kings were the paying customers as […]
