Chicago Bulls Media Day: Sights and sounds before the first official practice

The Chicago Bulls hosted their official 2017-18 Media Day on Monday and fans got to see and hear the new-look Bulls prior to training camp opening on Tuesday morning.

Before the Chicago Bulls officially open up training camp on Tuesday with their first two practices of the 2017-18 season, the new-look Bulls hosted Media Day at the Advocate Center in Chicago.

Two of the biggest headlines that were expected to be huge talking points on Monday — Nikola Mirotic‘s contract situation and Dwyane Wade‘s buyout situation — reached solutions on Sunday with a two-year contract for Mirotic and a buyout of Wade’s contract to make him a free agent.

So, the conscience of the Bulls was rather clear heading into Media Day on Tuesday and the focus could be on the group of young Bulls entering the first year of a rebuild.

Here’s some of the sights and sounds from Bulls Media Day on Monday.

The official training camp roster for the Bulls

After coming to terms with a deal for Mirotic, the Bulls added Jarell Eddie and Jaylen Johnson to their training camp roster, bringing the total player count to 19 guys.

Eddie spent some time with the Windy City Bulls and the Phoenix Suns last season, while Johnson went undrafted in this past June’s draft out of Louisville after forgoing his senior season.

Alert: Robin Lopez has a new number this season

Robin Lopez is an awesome teammate, but did Zach LaVine have to give anything to Lopez in order to wear the No. 8 for the Bulls after the trade? Doug McDermott apparently never got his payment from Dwyane Wade last season for the No. 3 or at least we never heard about it.

Cristiano Felicio: the $32 million man

From the looks of things on Monday, the Bulls were wearing their home uniforms from Nike for the season. The Bulls are now wearing red at home this season with the new Nike uniform deal for the NBA and the unis look clean. The Chicago flag stars on the waistband are a nice touch, too.

GarPaxBerg was in the house for Media Day

No harsh feelings between the Bulls front office and Dwyane Wade

So, no thoughts on the reports that the younger players “couldn’t stand” Wade last season?

#TrustThePaxcess

You know Gar Forman loves to tout that “flexibility” the Bulls have with this new roster. Just ask him. He’ll mention it about 4-5 times in the same quote.

Apparently, the young Bulls have been working hard

The Bulls know what’s going on around them

John Paxson didn’t really give an answer about the current issues in America other than the Bulls will get together as a team and discuss matters.

“We want to hear from our players first before we address it publicly,” Paxson said.

#LoseForLuka, #PlayPoorForPorter and #SecureTheBagley, Bulls

Oh, yes it is.

Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank!

Participation trophies for the lot of ya!

Zach LaVine was basically ruled out for Opening Night on Oct. 19

(Also, GarPax was asked about a potential LaVine rookie extension in October.)

So, nobody’s getting fired? Well, that’s anti-climatic.

#MuscleWatch?

?, ?, ?, ? and Robin Lopez to start on Opening Night vs. Toronto

Quincy Pondexter is actually going to play and that’s good for him

No caption needed

Zach LaVine is close, but he’s not quite there just yet…

… but…

The Finnisher was in the house on Monday, too

The cut looks sharp, but Markkanen had the Jackie Moon from Semi-Pro look down during EuroBasket 2017.

He was all business for his first Media Day in Chicago, too.

Not going back to No. 3, Kris Dunn?

Hit the showers, Vincent

And, here we are

One Media Day down, 82 long games (and a few preseason games) to go.