Reinsdorf: Bulls Can Win 'Four Championships'
For the most part, the Chicago Bulls are the surprise team in the NBA this year. While they were expected to be good, not even fans here in Chicago expected them to be this good.
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For the most part, the Chicago Bulls are the surprise team in the NBA this year. While they were expected to be good, not even fans here in Chicago expected them to be this good.
OK, Bulls fans. I want you to do something for me.
The Chicago Bulls passed up the Miami Heat in the standings and sent the team into an tail spin in the process. Now the Bulls have their sights on another "Big Three," the ones that play in Boston.
A night after finishing off the season sweep of the Miami Heat, the Chicago Bulls beat the New Orleans Hornets 85-77 at the United Center.
While yesterday was a statement win for the Chicago Bulls, reality needs to set in and sometime soon.
The Miami Heat lost their fourth straight Sunday after facing the Chicago Bulls. Chicago has proved to be better than the Heat each time they faced each other this season, even coming back from a double-digit deficit.
The Chicago Bulls signed free agent Rasual Butler on Thursday. With long standing rumors now in the past, the Bulls can focus on trying to catch the Boston Celtics for the top spot in the Eastern Conference.
With Joakim Noah back in the lineup the Chicago Bulls are starting to feel more and more confident with every passing game.
The guy who hit the biggest shot also made the most important statement.
The defensive effort wasn't there. The defensive rotations weren't there. This is not the way the Bulls wanted to start the second half of the season.
Tom Thibodeau shouldn't have to say a thing.
Joakim Noah returned to the court for the first time Wednesday after missing the previous 30 games. The Raptors and Bulls both kept the score close, but Toronto pulled away in the final minute to shut the Bulls down.
On Wednesday, Joakim Noah will make his return to the Chicago Bulls lineup after missing 30 games due to hand surgery. We've already discussed how he will help the team offensively, but he'll be a big boost defensively as well.
Over the course of the 30 games that the Chicago Bulls played without center Joakim Noah, the team went 22-8. The last game that Noah played was against the Toronto Raptors, the same team he'll make his return against.
The Bulls are heading in the the All-Star break on a high note. Chicago had just won the last four games, two of which were against Michael Jordan's Bobcats and first place Spurs.
The Chicago Bulls and the San Antonio Spurs have two of the best records in the NBA. The two teams will square off in their last game before the league's All-Star break.
Not much was working for Derrick Rose in the Bulls' 106-94 win over the Bobcats Tuesday night. He was double teamed, trapped and turned-over all night long.
Derrick Rose has played himself to the front of the NBA's MVP race so far this season. Most teams have tried and failed to slow down the Chicago Bulls' third year point guard.
The Chicago Bulls started just as strong as the New Orleans Hornets before slipping away in the second quarter. The Bulls stepped it up after halftime to claim a win.
Derrick Rose led all scorers with 29 points in the Chicago Bulls' 91-86 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. And it was a win that the Bulls definitely needed.
Derrick Rose scored 29 points and former Jazz players Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer made key plays in Utah, the game also marked the return of Carlos Boozer to Salt Lake City.
Derrick Rose has lead the Chicago Bulls to a 34-16 record through the first 50 games of the season and has them looking like legitimate contenders.
Carlos Boozer, Ronnie Brewer and Kyle Korver were all big parts of the Utah Jazz last season and they're now playing big roles for the Chicago Bulls.
In his 9th season in the NBA Carlos Boozer is playing for his third team. On Wednesday night he'll travel with the Chicago Bulls to play the Utah Jazz, the team the signed him as a free agent in 2004 and the team he left in 2010.
