Chicago Bulls

Playing for the Cavaliers is an adjustment for Luol Deng. Under Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau, Deng knew what he was going to get: lots of minutes, residual spittle flying off Thibs’ lips as he yelled, lots of minutes, a defensive cliche every now and then, lots of minutes, the keys to the team in [...]

Jalen Rose is a funny guy. An interesting guy. Most of all, Jalen Rose is a man unafraid of making bold proclamations. During halftime of the Knicks-Lakers game Sunday, ESPN’s on-air personality did just that. Speaking on Carmelo Anthony’s impending free agency, this Rose made it clear he thought ‘Melo should join another Rose—Derrick Rose. [...]

Judgment day has arrived. Kind of. Halfway through the 2013-14 NBA season, most of us feel like geniuses. We know stuff now, you see. Real stuff. Important stuff. Which teams will make the playoffs for sure? We know that. Which teams are absolutely terrible? We know that, too. Why exactly is the Eastern Conference reaching [...]

Jimmy Butler thinks the Bulls are grimy—in a good way. Following Chicago’s triple-overtime victory over the Magic, Butler was exhausted. “Y’all can go with me right now because I can’t move,” he told reporters, according to The Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson. “Tired” probably isn’t the appropriate word. Butler logged a franchise-record 60 minutes, 20 seconds [...]

That stench wafting through your home and into your oversized nostrils is coming from the NBA. Although it’s difficult to pinpoint what it actually is, we’re above confusion: it’s clarity. We’ve reached that point of the year where the Association’s happenings finally make more sense than whatever outfit Robin Thicke is wearing these days. Injuries and [...]

LeBron James has been here before. Playing great basketball for a team not quite good enough, all the while refusing to provide assurances about his future as he prepares to enter unrestricted free agency—LeBron’s been here before, where Carmelo Anthony is now. To an extent, LeBron himself is there now. Or rather, he should be. [...]

Expensive rentals suck, which is why the Cleveland Cavaliers hope to be more than a means to a different ending for Luol Deng. Cleveland traded Andrew Bynum’s contract and an assortment of draft picks to the Chicago Bulls for the two-time All-Star, in a deal announced by the Bulls themselves. That almost never happens. But [...]

Trade rumors can be a nasty business. The uncertainty they bring is just absurd, and no one has faced more uncertainty than Pau Gasol since 2011. The Los Angeles Lakers have dangled him every which way possible, forcing him to spend most of his days in limbo, waiting for word that his tenure in purple [...]

Almost two years ago, adidas made the decision to take their “all in” moniker heart by locking then-premiere NBA point guard Derrick Rose to a lifetime sneaker endorsement contract. With the 2011 NBA MVP out of the Chicago Bulls active roster again with an injury, adidas keeps the ball rolling with a new, high-performance basketball [...]

Addition by subtraction. Depletion by addition. That’s been the NBA’s prevailing theme this season. So many teams aren’t where they’re supposed to be. And I mean so many. Can anyone explain the Phoenix Suns, lottery-dwellers of 2012-13? Though they added Eric Bledsoe, they traded away Marcin Gortat and Jared Dudley. Now they’re among the Western [...]