As the draft kicks off trade season in the NBA, the single biggest trade of draft night has to be the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies swapping rookies and veterans.
Minnesota got rid of Marko (”I date Adriana Lima”) Jaric, Antione Walker, Greg Buckner and dated & dumped OJ Mayo. Memphis got rid of Mike Miller, Brian […]

The draft is over, the Bulls have started trading and there are more questions than answers with the roster. Starting with the additions, you have point guard Derrick Rose (first round) and center Omer Asik (second round, but acquired by trade). Sonny Weems was drafted in the second round and promptly traded to the Trail Blazers for […]

At last, the Bulls coaching search makes sense to me. Silly me, I was looking at the qualifications of the candidates originally interviewed and accusing the Bulls (that is to say, owner Jerry Reinsdorf) of being cheap. Now that word is starting to leak out about potential assistant coaches, I have begun to grasp that this coaching […]

So how tall is Michael Beasley? Apparently this is a multiple choice question. At Kansas State, he was listed at 6′10″. I’ve got a report at ESPN that he was measured 6′ 8.25″ at the NBA pre-draft camp. The Sun-Times says 6′ 7.5″. And now the Chicago Tribune reports he’s merely 6′ 7″.
I can understand a discrepancy between a college listing […]

The joke is real and it’s on the season ticket holders. Vinny Del Negro is officially the new coach of the Chicago Bulls. His coaching experience: none. 
Jeff Hornacek is considered the patron saint of walk-ons for having a long and prominent playing career after walking onto the basketball team at Iowa State. Vinny may have just become the […]

“Who are those guys?”
-Butch Cassiday
Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid
After royally screwing up two potential high-profile head coaching hires (Mike D’Antoni and Doug Collins both walked away), there’s buzz that the Bulls are about to announce a new coach from the short list of Dwayne Casey, Chuck Person and Vinny Del Negro. ”Who are those guy,” […]

The Chicago Tribune is now reporting Doug Collins has backed out as a candidate for coaching the Bulls.  In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, “surprise, surprise, surprise.”  In fact, Gomer might be the mascot for this coaching search, as skilled as this search’s execution as been.
I had refrained on commenting on Collins as a […]

And who have the Bulls been interviewing for a head coaching candidate? Lots of discount applicants, that is to say, people who are currently assistant coaches or not even an assistant. People like Chuck Person (assistant coach, Sacremento), Tyrone Corbin (local ties as a DePaul Alum, assistant with the Jazz), Jeff Hornacek (originally from the ‘burbs, special […]

You’ve heard it’s better to be lucky than to be good?  Well, the Bulls got lucky and turned a 1.7% chance into the first pick in the 2008 lottery.
What does thing mean?  Most likely another Baby Bull.  The darn-near universally acknowledged candidates for 1st pick are freshman Mike Beasley and freshman Derrick Rose.  When looking […]

Jerry Reinsdorf doesn’t like agents.  I’d say he didn’t like lawyers, but given he’s a lawyer (JD ’60, Northwestern), I wouldn’t want to accuse him of self-loathing.
After losing out to the Knicks for the services of Mike D’Antoni, Reinsdorf talked to the Chicago Tribune’s K.C. Johnson, and here’s the money quote:
“I also said if this […]