Chicago Bulls

The Houston Rockets have traded guard Michael Carter-Williams for a conditional, heavily protected second-round Draft pick. The Rockets will also reportedly be sending cash to the Bulls to complete the deal. The former Rookie of the Year did not materialize into the bargain-signing the Rockets hoped he could be. He began the season in the [...]

On Monday morning, before 9am, the Chicago Bulls fired head coach Fred Hoiberg and named associate head coach Jim Boylen as his replacement. According to ESPN, Boylen is taking over as head coach NOT as the interim coach. “Decisions like this one are never easy to make, however I felt this was the right choice [...]

When Chicago Bulls sophomore Lauri Markkanen first suffered his right elbow sprain, his timetable for return put him back sometime in mid-November. Now, however, it seems like he’ll be lucky to see the floor by mid-December. From Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times: The original timetable called for Markkanen to miss six to eight weeks, but [...]

The Chicago Bulls made the (correct) decision to completely blow it up this past summer by shedding many of their veterans and their cap space in order to start from scratch and start rebuilding through the draft. They made a very good (although it was criticized at the time) decision to use the No. 7 [...]

In a report that shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, the Bulls are planning to move Nikola Mirotic before the trade deadline. Mirotic has requested a trade all season, and even though the Bulls have played pretty good since his return, there is still reportedly tension behind the scenes between him and Bobby Portis after [...]

Zach LaVine’s Chicago Bulls debut is coming soon—or so it seems. The 22-year-old shooting guard, who was acquired as the centerpiece of the Jimmy Butler trade and is slated for restricted free agency this summer, has missed the first half of the year recovering from a torn ACL. But he’s currently traveling with the team, [...]

Nikola Mirotic is ruining the Chicago Bulls’ tank job, and they appear to know it. Since making his debut after suffering facial fractures and a concussion during a dustup with teammate Bobby Portis, the 26-year-old forward is averaging 17.2 points and 7.6 rebounds on 50.4 percent shooting, including a 47.5 percent clip from downtown. The [...]

The NBA All-Star game is headed back to Chicago…in 2020. ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell brought word on Thursday that the league and the Bulls will be announcing plans to put 2020’s superstar meetup in The Windy City. Shams Charania of The Vertical relayed more details: The NBA All-Star Game is returning to Chicago in 2020. (AP) [...]

Jahlil Okafor doesn’t yet have a new home. But he might soon. And that home will probably be in Atlanta or Chicago, according to NBA.com’s David Aldridge: League sources indicate the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks are the most likely destinations for Okafor. But the Sixers are still holding out for at least a Draft [...]

Things change quickly in the NBA. Take the Nikola Mirotic and Chicago Bulls situation for example: Entering Thursday, it seemed the 26-year-old had no real desire to be traded out of The Windy City following an earlier altercation with teammate Bobby Portis that ended with the former suffering a concussion and facial fractures. This mattered, [...]