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What most everybody came for Thursday was to see whether Rose was whole, and if he wasn't whole, whether his ankle was going to get it over with and simply fall off. And if it did, would it cause a chain-reaction accident with Luol Deng's dearly departed leg?
Two minutes into the game, Rose soared to block Richard Jefferson's fast-break layup attempt, and somewhere in the roar of the United Center crowd was a sigh of relief. The kid was OK. Before the...
Facing the unknown for the first time in his basketball life, the best Bulls player of his generation grasped for perspective that a serious injury threatening the arc of a legendary career forced him to find. "I believe there... more »
From now on, whenever someone wants to dispute the connection between confidence and winning in pro sports, I will offer the example of the 2012 Bulls, suddenly reduced to slumped shoulders and brittle spines. Monday at the... more »
Of all the injuries the Bulls endured in a series defined by attrition, nothing exceeded the pain and suffering of watching the 76ers celebrate as confetti fell onto the floor. Nothing could have hurt worse than knowing they... more »
It isn't every season the 76ers win three straight playoff games. It isn't even every decade it happens. The last time, in fact, was the first round of the 2001 playoffs, which turned out to be a pretty successful postseason.... more »
By now we know them by first names or nicknames: Taj, Rip, Lu, Booze, C.J., Omer, Kyle, Brew and even Scal. We know, as well as they do, that every one of them plays in Chicago based on their ability to complement a team built... more »
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