Game Summaries

Cue the Bee Gees. The Bulls played with real “win or go home” desperation last night. It was ugly…but it kept them alive and in the playoffs for at least one more game. Credit the defense for holding the Sixers to 69 points on 25-fo...

Even without Derrick Rose (torn ACL) and Joakim Noah (sprained ankle), the Bulls had enough to win yesterday. But they didn’t. The defense did its job, for the most part, limiting the Sixers to 39 percent shooting from the field and forcing the...

The first 24 minutes went pretty well. The Bulls came out fired up. Led by as many as 10 points. Were up 55-47 at the half. But I was worried anyway. What worried me wasn’t just that the 76ers were hanging around in the face of an energized ons...

Maybe you saw it happen. Maybe you didn’t. But yesterday was the saddest playoff win in franchise history. With 1:20 left and the Bulls nursing a double-digit lead, Derrick Rose drove the lane and tore the ACL in his left knee while trying to...

The Bulls have already clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference and are one win over the Cavaliers (or one Spurs loss) away from earning the best record in the league for the second year in a row. But according to Joakim Noah — and any s...

Welcome to the playoffs. Because this game was essentially a playoff game. The Heat needed it badly to save face for their recent mediocre play and to have any chance of overtaking the Bulls for the best record in the East. The Bulls needed it badly...

Well then. I guess that loss to the Wizards really left a bad taste in everybody’s mouth. Not too surprising. This Bulls team almost never loses two games in a row. Every loss is like a wake-up call to the players…and they usually come ba...

The Wizards? Really? Okay, fine, I get that Derrick Rose (foot) and Luol Deng (ribs) were out with injuries. And it was the second night of back-to-back games. But the Bulls were at home against a Washington squad that arrived in Chicago with only 14...

It was just one of those games. You know what I’m talking about. One of those games where a lesser team claws and scratches their way to a near-win against a better team that looks a little stuck in the mud. It’s not like the Bulls weren&...

Last night, the Bulls beat the Heat without Derrick Rose for the second time this season. Oh sure, there was a warm body out there. It looked like Rose, and it was wearing Rose’s jersey. But it wasn’t Rose. Was it? I’ve watched ever...

The Bulls were without Derrick Rose. Again. And again. And again. And again. That’s what it feels like anyway. As of last night’s home win over the Knicks, Rose has missed 23 games this season with a variety of injuries: turf toe, back sp...

This wasn’t the way Bulls fans envisioned Derrick Rose’s return from injury. It wasn’t the way Rose envisioned it either. The Bulls missed 11 of their first 12 shots and fell behind by 21 points in the first quarter before eventuall...