Archive for October, 2011

From all of us at Pippen Ain’t Easy to all of you in Bulls Nation: We’d like to wish you a Happy and safe Halloween. Remember, watch out for kids tonight. It’s their night to have fun and they don’t look for cars even when they aren’t in the vigorous pursuit of the almighty sugar high. SO please go slow and don’t be THAT guy who ruins some kids Halloween. Remember how fun it was to dress up and stay up past your bed time getting candy? Don’t do something stupid to take that away from kids. And don’t steal their candy. [...]

CHICAGO — It’s about that time of year when the leaves start changing and  the days get shorter. But when talking about basketball the same can be said for my hair; this 120 day mess is changing my hair color and making my days shorter. Before I get insanely angry, and lash out about how the lockout is a reflection of Wall Street and the upper one percent always getting what they want and not caring about who or what they destroy to get it, I need to take a step back and ask myself a question. With the news [...]

NEW YORK — If you were feeling optimistic about the NBA Labor talks and their frequency over the last week, you can let out that breath you were holding. David Stern is expected to announce the cancellation of the next two weeks of the NBA season sometime in the coming days and effectively ending any hope of the possibility of a full 82 game schedule. The big issue and the major reason there has been no deal up to this point remains the split between the two sides regarding the BRI (Basketball Related Income). The owners have been very adamant on lowering the player’s [...]

The good folks over at US Direct have created a timeline map tracking just how we got into this awful NBA Lockout mess. Via: Designed by USDirect.com

Bulls Talk is expanding to include a segment that involves interviewing those close to other NBA teams that the Chicago Bulls either play regularly in their division or have a marquee rivalry with. Each installment is an interviewer with a fellow writer: this segment highlights the Bulls divisional foe the Milwaukee Bucks. The Milwaukee Bucks no doubt see a lot of the Bulls being that they share the same division. But unlike the Bulls, Milwaukee can’t seem to get things going and missed the playoffs last year. However the Bucks are rising fast with talents like Brandon Jennings and rookie power forward [...]

CHICAGO — We all knew that Derrick Rose was going to be the top rated Bull in the latest ESPN player rankings, but after the elephant in the room is discussed, the question becomes who else form the NBA’s best team record-wise in 2010-11 makes the list? After Rose the next man up is probably another obvious choice: Joakim Noah. He’s hated basically everywhere outside of Chicago and Gainseville, but Noah is more than just a loud mouth and animated player on the court. Noah has a really good chance of becoming Rose’s No. 2. He’s already there in terms [...]

With the news that Joakim Noah is the 29th best NBA player according to ESPN, the question raised is this: Is Noah a sutable No. 2 for the Bulls to compliment Derrick Rose or is there another option out there? Or as a third alternative; should Chicago roll with a 2.0 version of the Scottie Pippen No. 2 idea? This would include Noah as a No. 2-B to another compliment to Rose at perhaps the shooting guard position? Voice your opinions because God knows there’s nothing better to do in regards to the NBA. You know what I’m talking about but that’s a rant [...]

NEW YORK — Raise your hand if you had in the office pool the NBA meeting for just about 30 straight hours and making no progress. Now how come I’m not surprise just about everybody raised their hands? Probably because there was no way the NBA Lockout was going to end this weekend. To quote the guard from the Wizard of Oz, “Not no way, not nohow!” This became abundantly clear when new Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul told everyone via Twitter what the players were offered and Derek Fischer channeled his inner Joe Wilson as the NBA lockout has taken [...]

CHICAGO — ESPN recently released their list of the best 500 active NBA players and Chicago’s hope, Derrick Rose, doesn’t crack the top 5 this year. Instead the reigning NBA MVP is ranked as the eighth best active player. Rose tops all Chicago Bulls on the list with the next closest Bull to Rose being Joakim Noah ranked 29th. All of the Bulls starting five and all of the major Bench Mob players made the list as well with the White Mamba himself, Brain Scalbrine closing out Bulls on the list at No. 449. But Derrick Rose is the focus [...]

CHICAGO — While the NBA owners meet in New York with Union reps trying to resolve the lockout, the players they pay to fill their stadiums are packing up and hitting the global road to spread the love of basketball to the world. Top NBA superstars like Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Dewayne Wade and Kobe Bryant are planning on playing in a two week exhibition league that will see them span the globe to play their games. This all comes in front of most of these players parting ways with each other and the NBA for the time being to [...]