Round Table: Breaking Down The Bulls
The Score's Jason Goff hosted a round table discussion late Tuesday night to discuss the upcoming season and what the Bulls need to do to make it past the Eastern Conference Finals and win a title.
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The Score's Jason Goff hosted a round table discussion late Tuesday night to discuss the upcoming season and what the Bulls need to do to make it past the Eastern Conference Finals and win a title.
The NBA season won't start until Christmas day, but LeBron James and Kevin Durant couldn't wait to face off -- in flag football.
One NBA expert said for the Bulls to make it to the finals this season, they need to bring in more help for Rose.
Despite the Bulls posting the best regular season record in the NBA and making it to the Eastern Conference Finals, Carlos Boozer faced a lot of criticism when his numbers dipped in the playoffs.
For the first time since the lockout began on July 1, NBA players are going to be welcomed back to their team facilities, said league spokesman Tim Frank.
The new NBA collective bargaining agreement means more than just basketball's return to Chicago.
Don't blame the owners for the lack of professional basketball in the middle of November. Don't blame the players for nixing the latest offer earlier this week, thus extending the delay until at least mid-December, and quite possibly, until the 2012-13 season.
The NBA lockout has effectively whipped out more than a month and a half of the season, and Tuesday, the players experienced what it really feels like to be unemployed.
The NBA Player's Association's decision to reject the NBA's latest offer and disband as a union could spell the end of any hope for a basketball season in 2011-12.
NBA players rejected the league's latest offer Monday and began disbanding the union, fully aware it likely will jeopardize the season. Chicago's potential lockout loss could be huge.
The NBA players have rejected the league's latest offer and are beginning the process to disband the union.
Joined by superstars such as Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, player representatives from NBA teams are meeting to discuss the league's proposal for a new labor deal.
As it seems more and more likely the players will not take the owners' recent 50-50 revenue split, the likelihood of there being a season will continue to drop, but that doesn't mean the ball will stop bouncing for LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and others.
LeBron James might be a load to handle on the court, but in the NBA labor quagmire he's got nothing on a swamp turtle named Pogo, a comic pages pundit with a labor lesson for LeBron and the NBA players. "We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us," said Pogo, the resident sage of cartoonist Walt Kelly's Okefenokee Swamp.
The best NBA talent you'll find here are Chicago-based referees Danny Crawford, James Capers, and Marc Davis. CBS 2's Ryan Baker talks with them about how they're spending their time.
Instead of getting excited to watch the defending league MVP Derrick Rose and his Bulls comrades begin their march towards redemption, I was stuck moping around my apartment while my wife watched re-runs of Sex and the City and whatever "breaking news" in the ever-important Kris Humphries Kim Kardashian divorce "saga" was becoming public knowledge.
Derek Fisher denied a rift in union leadership in a letter to NBA players Monday, telling them there have been "no side agreements, no side negotiations or anything close" with league officials.
According to Amick, there is some reason to be optimistic.
NBA Commissioner David Stern has already canceled two weeks of the season, prompting this outburst from a faux Kobe Bryant.
NBA and players' association representatives met for 15 hours Wednesday, and a published report says officials are hoping that a full season can be salvaged.
Negotiations between the NBA and the players' association are set to resume Wednesday, according to a published report.
The NBA is expected to announce the cancelation of at least two more weeks of the season, a published report says.
Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose was the passenger in a car pulled over for a DUI early Friday morning, TMZ reports.
