Bulls Rumors & News

Bleacher Report "After winning the NBA title last season, the Los Angeles Lakers are in a bit of trouble as this year's playoffs draws closer. And if they don't turn things around soon, their appearance in the 2020-21 postseason could be brief. The Lakers fell to the Portland Trail Blazers on..." May 09

Pro Basketball Talk "Chicago expected to make a leap up into the playoffs after trading for Nikola Vucevic at the deadline. Instead, the Bulls got a little worse, losing their first four after the trade and going 9-15 overall with a -2.6 net rating. Not having Zach LaVine for 11 of those..." May 08

The Athletic "If you thought the Bulls were aggressive at the trade deadline, wait until you see what they do this offseason. Up to 10 players from the current roster could be discarded as chief basketball executive Arturas Karnišovas continues to remake the Bulls. Some will be allowed to..." May 08

Chicago Sun-Times "Center Nikola Vucevic took the court for his 22nd game with the Bulls on Friday against the Celtics at the United Center. And while it’s a small sample size, it’s fair to kid him about being a ‘‘stretch five.’’ That’s what..." May 08

Hoops Rumors "The NBA’s rookie scale, which determines how much first-round picks earn during their first four NBA seasons, also dictates how much the qualifying offers will be worth for those players when they reach restricted free agency after year four. However, the value of those..." May 07

Heavy "No matter who you are or what team you play for, the MVP debate affects us all. Just ask Chicago Bulls big man Nikola Vucevic. Ahead of the NBA’s Friday slate of games, Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic is the clubhouse leader for the award. The Serbian..." May 07

ESPN "IT WAS NOV. 5, 2017, game nine for the newly formed superteam in Oklahoma City. After a bumpy 4-4 start, the Thunder were in Portland to take on a division rival. Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts had taken his spot in the narrow hallway of the Moda Center pregame to talk with..." May 07

The Score "It's tough for the average fan to keep up with all 30 NBA teams at any point in the season, especially in these final days when some teams are clearly out of the race and playing for nothing. But while you're ignoring some of those afterthought clubs, you might miss the start of a..." May 07

Basketball News "Over the years, the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament has given thousands of NBA hopefuls an opportunity to showcase their game in front of executives from all 30 teams. The event has featured NBA legends such as John Stockton, Scottie Pippen, Tim Hardaway, Dennis Rodman, Rick Barry and..." May 07

Fadeaway World "Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan were arguably the greatest duos in NBA history. This pair took the Chicago Bulls to the top of the league in the 90s, winning six championships in eight years.  They lived plenty of memorable moments together, and one of the biggest was the..." May 07

Fadeaway World "The Los Angeles Lakers are a team that may be looking at some changes this summer. They have a lot of players who will be free agents during the summer, and point guard Dennis Schroder is one of them. If he leaves, then the Los Angeles Lakers would need to find a good replacement, one that..." May 06

Bleacher Report "Young talent is the hottest commodity in the NBA. It's cheap, it has upside (which means hope for the fanbase), it's easier to control for long periods of time, and it comes with built-in retention advantages—like larger raises on new deals and matching rights in..." May 06

The Score "Only 1% of defensive three-second violations have been called correctly in the final two minutes of close games since the start of the 2015-16 NBA season, Owen Phillips writes for The F5 newsletter. Using publicly available data from the league's last-two-minute reports,..." May 06

ESPN "How does the NBA play-in tournament work and which teams will participate during the 2020-21 season? The league first tested the play-in round during the 2020 NBA restart in Orlando, Florida, with the Portland Trail Blazers topping the Memphis..." May 06

Yardbarker "Bulls guard Zach LaVine will return to action on Thursday after missing the team’s last 11 games due to the NBA’s health and safety protocols, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). LaVine had cleared the protocols this week and was targeting..." May 05

Yardbarker "While some high-profile players and team owners have griped about the NBA’s newly introduced play-in tournament, the format is working “spectacularly well” and has virtually no downside, contends John Hollinger of The Athletic. As Hollinger..." May 05

Hoops Rumors "Of the 492 NBA players tested for COVID-19 since April 28, four players have registered new confirmed positive tests, the league and the players’ union announced today in a press release. The NBA and NBPA don’t publicly disclose which specific players test positive..." May 05

The Athletic "As the NBA playoffs near and the offseason looms ahead, several head coaching situations are perilous. Others, meanwhile, are less precarious but wrought with the kind of complicated internal dynamics that make them worth monitoring. This has been an unordinary season due to the..." May 05

Sporting News "Brace yourselves, basketball fans. The 2021 NBA playoffs are almost here. There is an added level of intrigue this year with the league implementing a new version of the play-in tournament, which was first seen inside the Florida "bubble" amid the COVID-19..." May 05

Sportsnaut "The 2020-21 NBA regular season is slated to come to a culmination here in less than two weeks. It’s been a drama-filled past several months with the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers looking nothing like a title contender. Meanwhile, the Boston Celtics are on the hot seat down..." May 04

Bleacher Report "Entering a season knowing your favorite NBA team is rebuilding is one thing. Fully expecting a playoff run only to end up with a spot in the lottery is quite another. No franchises have been as disappointing this year as the Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors,..." May 04

The Athletic "It’s amazing how opinions on the play-in tournament change once a team realizes it might be them in the seventh or eighth seed. Both Mark Cuban (earlier this season) and LeBron James (two days ago) expressed disgust with the NBA’s play-in tournament at..." May 04

Chicago Sun-Times "It sure felt like a night to go the tank route. Bulls coach Billy Donovan, however, insisted that wasn’t the case. When asked if there were any discussions with executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas about sitting guys with..." May 04

The Athletic "When “The Marvel Game” was announced, the general reaction around NBA fandom, at least as much as Twitter is representative was “Who is this for?” We’ve been calling for more basketball in basketball broadcasts for years, and this is going the other way. But the..." May 04

SI "Although the Philadelphia 76ers are coming off of an overtime matchup against the San Antonio Spurs, which ended less than 24 hours ago, the Sixers seem to be planning to face the Chicago Bulls at full strength.  For the last few games, the Sixers have been fully..." May 03

USA Today "This NBA coach has a winning percentage this season of .677, third-best in the conference. In the games he has coached this season, his team has the third-best fourth-quarter net rating and his team has won 85% of its games decided by five or fewer points. And his team, after..." May 03

Chicago Sun-Times "Bulls rookie forward Patrick Williams finally was acting like a typical 19-year-old on a Saturday night. His All-Star ‘‘parents’’ — guard Zach LaVine and center Nikola Vucevic — were out, the game was all his and he seemed to embrace doing whatever..." May 03

Heavy "Over a week has passed since the Chicago Bulls last scored more than 20 points in the first quarter. If this were 2011, then perhaps that number would be less concerning. But it’s 2021 in an era of NBA basketball that is centered around offense and features high-volume..." May 01

Yahoo! Sports "First Quarter: NFL approach to NBA calendar  Just thinking aloud here … The NFL has started to copy the NBA in some ways, most notably the players beginning to realize their power. It can’t be apples to apples, not with the power structure..." May 01

Fadeaway World "The Los Angeles Clippers are a team that may have to make some additions to the roster if they don't win the NBA championship this season. Even if they do win it all, it could be good to accumulate more star power on the roster to heighten their chances of winning once..." April 30

Bleacher Report "Between flattened lottery odds and an expanded postseason field by way of the play-in tournament, the NBA has made moves to limit its number of bottom-feeders. Those efforts appear to be working. Just six teams have a winning percentage south of .400, and only the James..." April 30

Yardbarker "The NBA's Chicago Bulls and NHL's Chicago Blackhawks are going with a "better late than never" approach to welcoming paying spectators back to the United Center.   In a joint statement released on Thursday, the two..." April 29

Bleacher Report "It's not possible for everyone to get what they want from an NBA season. If it were, we'd close every year with 30 champions, 30 MVPs and 30 Rookies of the Year—one to wholly satisfy every fanbase. This particular year, shortened and unusual as it's been,..." April 29

The Athletic "Welcome to the pre-free-agency period. This isn’t an official sort of thing in the NBA, but that doesn’t mean it’s not real. Amid all the focus on playoff positioning, the races for individual awards and such, there’s a subplot to the final stretch that is..." April 29

CBS Sports "The end of the 2020-21 NBA regular season is rapidly approaching, which means that award season will soon be upon us. We've already looked at the contenders for Coach of the Year, so this time around we'll look at the top candidates for Sixth Man of the Year. The Sixth Man of..." April 29

Clutch Points "It’s now been two weeks since we last saw Zach LaVine take the floor for the Chicago Bulls. He’s been in the league’s health and safety protocols for an extended period, but at this point, his return does not seem imminent. According to Bulls..." April 28

Fadeaway World "It's well known that the summer of 2010 was a very interesting one for the NBA. LeBron James and Chris Bosh were free agents and they were looking for a team to join where they could create a Big 3.  Among those teams, you had the New York Knicks and Miami Heat, but the..." April 28

Bleacher Report "The Larry O'Brien Trophy isn't the only thing up for grabs when the NBA playoffs tip off. For some players, the postseason is a chance to bolster or redefine their value ahead of free agency. Not everybody needs this high-stakes sample size to solidify their next..." April 28

ESPN "MONTHS AFTER THE 1998 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan sat on one side of a giant table inside a Manhattan conference room. It was the site of a bargaining session between NBA owners and players. The league was embroiled in a lockout. The season was in jeopardy. But Jordan had other unfinished..." April 28

Time Magazine "In late March, Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, entered a corner conference room overlooking New York City for his first face-to-face interview with a journalist since the pandemic began. After taking over as commissioner in 2014, Silver has presided over an unprecedented..." April 28

The Athletic "With their playoff hopes in peril, the Bulls secured a pivotal 110-102 win at Miami on Monday night. It was a win that, coupled with a Washington loss, pulled the Bulls back within a game of 10th place with 11 remaining and a performance that spotlighted significant decisions that lie..." April 28

Bleacher Report "As the NBA season winds down, the projected draft range for each team is becoming clearer. That allows us to get a better feel for which prospects teams can realistically target. Using the current standings and our most recent mock draft, we picked three names each franchise..." April 27

The Ringer "It was the first week of April when Rondae Hollis-Jefferson’s manager rushed into the player’s house and relayed the news he’d been waiting to get for more than four months. Hollis-Jefferson hadn’t been on an active NBA roster since the end of the 2020 season, but..." April 27

Bleacher Report "Superteams have been ubiquitous throughout the NBA's history. Bill Russell's Boston Celtics featured multiple Hall of Famers. Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain teamed up in the 1970s. Magic Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers and Larry Bird's Celtics were loaded. Michael..." April 27

Basketball News "Prior to the NBA trade deadline on March 25, several teams tried to trade for Miami Heat guard Kendrick Nunn, league sources told BasketballNews.com. Multiple teams inquired about Nunn’s availability, and at least two of those teams have shifted their focus to pursuing the..." April 27

CBS Sports "After doing a trial run of a play-in tournament to determine the eighth seed in both conferences last season down in the Orlando bubble, the NBA may be looking to adopt the format permanently. Entering this season, the league and players approved the play-in tournament which would involve the..." April 27

Baltimore Sun "It’s almost award-voting season in the NBA, and the best race is the one that not enough people are talking about. The MVP race between Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Denver’s Nikola Jokic seems like a toss-up, and the realization that one of those two centers will..." April 27

NBA.com "For the second season in a row, there will be a Play-In Tournament between the end of the regular season and start of the playoffs. The difference this season is the No. 7 and No. 8 seed in each conference are up for grabs, not just the No. 8 seed. Which team..." April 27

ESPN "Tyrese Haliburton had to think quickly. The Sacramento Kings were set to meet in five minutes, but Haliburton had heard there was a surprise drop about to hit. He signed on to see where he landed in the virtual queue -- in the 3,000s. With more than 100,000 accounts in..." April 27

ESPN "Ten NBA referees, including veteran officials typically assigned to the NBA Finals, are sidelined because of issues related to COVID-19 and, in one case, an injury, a league official told ESPN. That figure represents the highest of its kind to date in a season during which 24 referees..." April 26