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The Bulls appear headed for their third straight appearance.
With Vucevic about to come back from a calf injury, coach Billy Donovan will have options in the middle with the emergence of the newly acquired Collins. But there’s also a bigger picture for the Bulls, and that could involve moving Vucevic this summer and having Collins take his place.
Giddey had his third triple-double of the season in the win over the Heat on Saturday and hit the dagger three with 16 seconds left to give the Bulls a two-game sweep on the Florida trip.
Bulls coach Billy Donovan isn’t opposed to having Collins and Nikola Vucevic on the floor at the same time, but they need to get Vucevic back from his calf injury first, then they need some practice time together. Both could happen this week.
The game’s face — the single player who will be purposefully and strategically attached to all-everything NBA — seems to have become more substantial than the league and the game itself.
It didn’t look good when Bulls big men Zach Collins and Jalen Smith fouled out in the fourth quarter Thursday, but Buzelis and Julian Phillips stepped in and came out on top against the Magic’s muscle.
In one of the more physical games of the season, the Bulls, rather than sink in the fourth quarter down nine, leaned on White’s scoring and some physicality from two unexpected sources to pull out a 125-123 win in Orlando.
If all goes well for Williams on Friday, he’ll get through the workout, test the right knee and be ready to return Saturday in Miami. But as Williams pointed out, plans don’t always go the way they’re supposed to.
“Queremos que las niñas entiendan que hay un lugar para ellas en los deportes”, dijo la vicepresidenta de participación comunitaria de los Bulls, Adrienne Scherenzel. “Pero también queremos que se den cuenta de que va a ser mucho trabajo. Puede que no seas buena en eso al principio, pero puedes tener mucho éxito”.
Riders will be able to reserve a seat on a shuttle using the Uber app up to two days before an event, an Uber spokesperson said.
Does the Dosunmu surgery change the plans for the backcourt? Are the Bulls headed for the play-in even with a skidding record? Zach Collins?
23XI and Front Row Motorsports were the only teams out of 15 that refused to sign new charter agreements, which were presented to the teams last September in a take-it-or-leave-it offer a mere 48 hours before the start of NASCAR’s playoffs.
“We want girls to understand there’s a place for them in sports,” Bulls vice president of community engagement Adrienne Scherenzel said. ”But we also want them to realize it’s gonna be work. You might not be good at it at first, but you can have a lot of success.”
For 3½ quarters, the short-handed Bulls were running with the best team in the NBA. But as Coby White pointed out afterward, the Cavs can flip a switch, and they ran the Bulls out of the United Center down the stretch.
The timing would seem less than ideal for the former Morgan Park standout, considering he has only one year left on his contract. But he’s embracing the “adversity.”
Buzelis, with 10 starts under his belt, and coach Billy Donovan know there have been games in which he has been physically overwhelmed by stronger, more experienced players. The rookie is ready to address the problem with hard work in the summer.
The Bulls hear the outside world screaming for them to lose games and improve their draft-lottery odds, but they’re doing all they can to block out that noise and compete at the highest level.
Dosunmu will have surgery on his left shoulder that will sideline him for at least the next three months.
Karnisovas appeared on a podcast recently and made it seem like the path out of mediocrity for the Bulls is as simple as a “good player” landed in the 2025 draft and a few offseasons to get into cost efficiency. If only it were that simple.
The Bulls have a 2½-game edge for the last play-in spot in the East, but the question about what that means for the franchise in the long term remains.
The Bulls are 2-3 in clutch games since Zach LaVine’s departure.
Tickets for two Fever-Sky games at the UC will go on sale March 11, but Sky season-ticket holders will have first priority, according to team CEO and president Adam Fox.