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The Chicago Bulls, a professional basketball franchise, joined the National Basketball Association in 1966. Their 33 victories that season remain the most ever by an expansion team. Johnny "Red" Kerr, now the longtime team broadcaster, earned NBA Coach of the Year Honors that first season. The Bulls rose to international prominence during the 1990s when, led by Michael Jordan, they won six NBA titles in eight seasons. Those teams were abundant in colorful personalities such as coach Phil Jackson, Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen. Bulls games became a destination for basketball fans and celebrities alike. Home games included a tradition, now copied by every team in the league, of dimming the...
The Chicago Bulls, a professional basketball franchise, joined the National Basketball Association in 1966. Their 33 victories that season remain the most ever by an expansion team. Johnny "Red" Kerr, now the longtime team broadcaster, earned NBA Coach of the Year Honors that first season. The Bulls rose to international prominence during the 1990s when, led by Michael Jordan, they won six NBA titles in eight seasons. Those teams were abundant in colorful personalities such as coach Phil Jackson, Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen. Bulls games became a destination for basketball fans and celebrities alike. Home games included a tradition, now copied by every team in the league, of dimming the lights and introducing the players to music. After the sixth NBA title in 1998, the team was dismantled. Rightly or wrongly, team Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and then-general manager Jerry Krause received the brunt of blame for alienating Jordan, who had said he wouldn't play for any other coach but Jackson. Jordan retired. Jackson went on to coach the Los Angeles Lakers. Scottie Pippen got traded to the Houston Rockets. The Bulls began a long period of mediocrity under coach Tim Floyd. A recent resurgence, led by former player and current general manager John Paxson, has the Bulls viable again.
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Vinny Del Negro packs up belongings and thanks Clippers again
Vinny Del Negro eased into a chair in what was now his former office as the coach of the Clippers. Del Negro was preparing to pack up his belongings Wednesday, a day after the Clippers had let him go after three years coaching the team. He also had come...
Tags: Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, Los Angeles Clippers, Mike Krzyzewski, Vinny Del Negro
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Metta World Peace does the weather, talks Lakers season
Metta World Peace joined Liz Habib on the KTTV-TV (Channel 11) news broadcast Friday night to talk sports and do the weather with meteorologist Pablo Pereira. "I came to L.A. because of Phil Jackson, Kobe [Bryant] reminded me of [Michael] Jordan,...
Tags: Michael Jordan, Dwight Howard, Entertainment, Phil Jackson, Staples Center
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Kobe Bryant tweets on retirement, Michael Jordan and his own memoir
Kobe Bryant set the record straight on Twitter on Sunday night about the notion of an early retirement. Really?? Me. Retire?? Soon, but not yet Vino still has work to do #35 #OG #kbvff — Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) Speculation ran rampant over the...
Tags: Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association, Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson, Shaquille O'Neal
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Pregnant Blackhawks fan goes into labor, refuses to leave game
Now this is total fan dedication. Donna Lebano attended the Chicago Blackhawks-Minnesota Wild first-round NHL playoff game in Chicago on Thursday. No big deal there, although she was eight months' pregnant. That's impressive, but hey, many...
Tags: Chicago Blackhawks, Ice Hockey, National Hockey League, Sports, Marian Hossa
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Heat finishes strong to eliminate Bulls from playoffs
addCustomPlayer('u973rd2gy8v61owvw7s1z8juu', '', '', 600, 418, 'perfu973rd2gy8v61owvw7s1z8juu', 'eplayer15'); MIAMI — Knowing his team needed him at his best, Dwyane Wade retreated to the Miami Heat locker room after the third quarter for some...
Tags: Jimmy Butler, Richard Hamilton, National Basketball Association, Dwyane Wade, Tom Thibodeau
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Will Smith, son Jaden photobombed by sideline reporter
Will Smith and his son Jaden have been immortalized in an epic photo-bomb. As the father and son, stars of the upcoming thriller "After Earth," sat courtside for Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs on Wednesday in Miami, a sportscaster in a...
Tags: TNT (tv network), National Basketball Association, American Airlines Arena, Miami Heat, Marv Albert
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Phil Jackson's new book focuses a lot on (who else?) Kobe Bryant
Phil Jackson was just messing with us, once again. The wily former coach of the Lakers and Chicago Bulls wrote a book in 2004 that was called "The Last Season." It seemed true at the time, but the legendary leader came back for a six-year run with the...
Tags: Michael Jordan, Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson, Book, Fiction
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Bird-flipping fan nowhere to be found at Heat-Bulls game
Miami The closest thing to a bird at AmericanAirlines Arena on Wednesday was Miami Heat player Chris Andersen, nicknamed “Birdman.” As for the Heat fan who gained notoriety for flipping the bird to a Chicago Bulls player, she was nowhere to...
Tags: American Airlines Arena, Preakness Stakes, Miami Heat, Joakim Noah, Equestrian
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NBA playoffs: Heat puts stranglehold on Bulls, and series
addCustomPlayer('u973rd2gy8v61owvw7s1z8juu', '', '', 600, 418, 'perfu973rd2gy8v61owvw7s1z8juu', 'eplayer15'); CHICAGO — LeBron James and the Miami Heat didn't even give the Chicago Bulls room to breathe, practically squeezing the playoff life...
Tags: Dwyane Wade, Basketball, Tom Thibodeau, NBA Playoffs, LeBron James
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Phil Jackson throws the book at Kobe Bryant
Phil Jackson never liked to compare Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan. Believe me, I tried everything. Sometimes I'd ask him after random Lakers practices or before games against Charlotte, the team Jordan owned. Or after games in Chicago, where nostalgia...
Tags: Andrew Bynum, Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association, Los Angeles Lakers, Shaquille O'Neal
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NBA fines Taj Gibson $25,000, J.R. Smith $5,000
Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson has been fined $25,000 for his outburst at a referee, and New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith has been penalized $5,000 for flopping, the NBA announced Friday. Gibson and Joakim Noah each received two technicals and were...
Tags: Punishment, Oklahoma City Thunder, J.R. Smith, New York Knicks, Miami Heat
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Flip Saunders hired to run Timberwolves
Goodbye, David Kahn. Hello, Flip Saunders. Again. The Minnesota Timberwolves announced Thursday that owner Glen Taylor will not pick up the option for next season on Kahn's contract as president of basketball operations. Three people with knowledge of...
Tags: Ryan Moore, College Sports, Phil Jackson, Flip Saunders, Ricky Rubio
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