Yes, folks. Chicago Bulls (preseason) basketball is back. The Bulls kicked off their seven-game preseason slate against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night. Here’s five takeaways from the first showing of the new-look Bulls.
The Chicago Bulls played an organized basketball game (that didn’t count) against another NBA team on Monday night.
It’s crazy, right?
For the first time, the new-look Bulls took the United Center floor as a unit and hosted their neighbors to the north in the Central Division: the Milwaukee Bucks.
The upside is: The Bulls scored the first eight points of the game and 14 of the first 17 points of the night.
The downside is: They didn’t do much after that in a preseason-opening loss to the young, lengthy Bucks.
With that being said, here’s five takeaways from Monday night’s loss, starting with the best and worst pronunciation of Bucks wing Giannis Antetokounmpo’s name you’ll ever hear in your life.
Stacey King: boldly going where no pronunciation of Antetokounmpo has gone before https://t.co/PFhKjG8LfV
— Frank Madden (@fmaddenNBA) October 4, 2016
1. Stacey King is never allowed to try and say “Giannis Antenetokoumpo” again
I mean, good lord.
What did Stacey even say here?
“Giannis Antetokookokoko”?
Look, Anteotokounmpo is really hard to say (and spell for that matter), but this might the worst pronunciation of Giannis’ name that anyone has ever heard.
As for Antetokounmpo in the actual game, he picked three first-quarter fouls (!), but still had a solid showing in his first preseason action with 12 points on 4-of-8 shooting.