Ricky O'Donnell
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Jonathan Tjarks and I became friends while working at SB Nation in 2012. I cherish the nights we spent watching basketball together.
I wrote about what Tjarks' friendship meant to me, and the towering legacy of kindness he leaves behind. Rest easy, buddy
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Steve Nash is generationally rich and in his 40s and can now go on vacations for the rest of his life instead of dealing with whatever horrible bullshit Kyrie is on on any given day, seems like a huge win for him personally.
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League is in trouble if the Bears ever figure out the NFL permits the forward pass
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A truly insane 30-seconds from the Bulls' YouTube channel on the night they traded Jimmy Butler.
John Paxson looks soooo happy. Bunch of white guys giving themselves a raucous round of applause for making one of the worst NBA trades in recent memory.
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The No. 32 offensive line and No. 32 wide receivers in the NFL, I will be choosing to grade Justin Fields on a very generous curve.
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Loves women's basketball✅
Freaks out homophobes with cool nails✅
Will probably break every Bears passing record as a rookie✅
You'd have to be a gigantic loser not to adore Caleb Williams already
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Most bad NBA coaches get fired without ever leaving a mark. Jim Boylen literally installed a punch clock at practice, caused a team mutiny his third day on the job, coined the phrase 'double lose', compared Luke Kornet to Robert Horry, drew up ATOs for Adam Mokoka while down 20,
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Fire Eberflus, fire Getsy, and fire a cannonball into my chest for daring to get a little bit excited about the Chicago Bears
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Luis Robert is liking his own Instagram highlights in the middle of the game while smacking around the Cubs. Iconic.
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Coach K’s career ending with a loss to his archrival on the biggest stage possible -- truly a hater's dream come true
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Legendary IG post from SGA after dropping 42 and the game-winner on the Wizards last night. This is as good as posting gets.
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Bulls fans bullied John Paxson into firing himself, and it was the best thing that could have ever happened for the franchise
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John Paxson has spent 15 years building the NBA's worst culture with the Bulls. He must fire himself right now
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The Bulls will always be the franchise that gave Jim Boylen more support than literally Michael Jordan
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My football team has a 6'3, 230-pound, 4.4 40 speed super solider at QB who is the best athlete on the field in every game he plays. By the way he was born in 1999.
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Kim Mulkey lost that game for LSU. Maybe next year spend less time attacking the media and more time not having a totally dumb ass game plan.
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John Fox: let's punt on 4th-and-1 from the 45 yard line
Matt Nagy: I don't know, we'll throw a touchdown to our backup right tackle or some shit
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Justin Fields: one of the best rushing QBs in league history, accurate as hell on rollouts, deadeye on bombs, a truly rare ability to extend plays and extend drives, superstar in the making.
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It's crazy that DeMar DeRozan is actually just 1997-1998 Michael Jordan
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Half of Chicago is dressed like 5-year-old Nikola Vucevic in northwest Europe this morning
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I have never seen anything like this DeMar DeRozan season
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I solemnly swear to RT this every time I see it.
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Ryan Arcidiacono when Bulls/Hawks started vs. when it ended
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Jim Boylen is the worst coach in the NBA, but the Bulls won't fire him. To understand why, you need to know management's history.
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I’m sorry but the power conference state school can’t be slapping the floor against the mid-major from two hours away. It’s illegal.
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Kate Martin is going to be showing this clip to McDonald's All-Americans one day when she's killing it as a college head coach. Absolute nails.
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Ron Harper Jr. had 29 points for Rutgers tonight. (also he's listed as a 6'6, 245-pound guard, sheesh)
Scotty Pippen Jr. had 10 points for Vanderbilt.
DJ Rodman played a season-high 30 minutes for Washington State in his last game.
This has been your Chicago Bulls update.
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Matt Eberflus is a goddamn legend, dude saw Jim Boylen as the worst Chicago sports coach of the modern era and said hold my beer
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Aaron Rodgers ends his Packers career with as many NFC championships as Rex Grossman
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The Bulls went from a fun story to a legitimate championship contender with a quickness.
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DeRozan has been saving the Bulls' ass all year, he finally has a bad game and the rest of the team picked him up. Great to see.
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Matisse Thybulle:
- Unprecedented defensive playmaking ability
- Hasn't missed a three in a week??
- Already has a signature celebration
- Super fun to watch + easy to root for
I wrote the Sixers rookie who is becoming the cult hero Philly deserves:
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Pray for the Packers, the Vikings, and the Lions. They are about to get their ass whooped by Justin Fields twice a year for the next decade and change.
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If a mass shooting can happen in Highland Park, it can truly happen anywhere. Didn't matter that there was a heavy police presence on hand. Any politician fighting against an assault weapon ban deserves a first-class ticket to hell.
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I am really happy for Coby White. He’s been through so much: two years of Jim Boylen, a torn labrum this offseason, trying to find his place on a really good veteran team, an immediate shooting slump, catching Covid, ect. Now he’s playing the best ball of his career on both ends
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Caruso
LaVine
Lonzo
Pat Will
Vooch
Bench: Thad, Coby, Ayo, Troy Brown Jr. + Lauri sign-and-trade candidate. At long last, the Bulls no longer feel like a GarPax team.
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The Bulls almost traded Jimmy Butler for Kris Dunn last year, watched Dunn do nothing as a rookie, and now they're doing the same deal. OK.
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Still the best block on Deandre Ayton this season
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This was called a foul on Samford. One of the cleanest chasedown blocks I've ever seen.
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Bulls just traded for a player that makes them better for the first time since John Salmons and Brad Miller came together in 2009. I'm not making that up.
Great move. Otto Porter helps the Bulls so, so much.
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Bulls had one three-game winning streak under Jim Boylen in 123 games. Billy Donovan has his first in only 15 games.
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It rocks that the Bears didn't even interview Mike McDaniel the year they hired Football Boylen instead
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Arturas Karnisovas traded 3 first round picks for a team that missed the playoffs in the JV conference three times in four seasons. Any owner who cared about their team even a little bit would fire this man tomorrow.
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The righteous anger of Bulls fans got Gar Forman fired and made John Paxson put himself on paid retirement. We actually did it.
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Lived long enough to see Jimmy Butler whoop LeBron's ass in an NBA Finals game
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The Jazz are 14-5 with Kris Dunn as their starting point guard. Lauri Markkanen is playing like a top-20 player in the world.
If you wondered what these guys would look like with an elite head coach instead of Jim Boylen, Will Hardy is showing you in Utah
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This is legitimately the high point of being a Bears fan since Jan. of 1986. Got the No. 1 pick and a 23-year-old franchise QB. What a world.
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Lonzo picking the Bulls in minute one of free agency does give me a little bit of faith the public perception of the team has changed with the new front office
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New White Sox manager:
✅No DUIs
✅Not yet eligible for social security
✅Doesn't appear to use 'analytics' as a pejorative
✅Is not close personal friends with Jerry Reinsdorf
✅Probably knows the rules
I'll take it.
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Bless the Rockets for being good enough to actually make the Warriors try
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The Bulls have had the worst record in the NBA since trading Jimmy Butler four years ago, so yeah this is pretty tight
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Best teams in NBA history:
5) '83 Sixers
4) '71 Bucks
3) '92 Bulls
2) '96 Bulls
1) TNT Bulls
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Unfortunately this game has left me no choice but to turn into a guy who tweets stuff like this
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Pelicans are already building around Zion in all the ways they failed Anthony Davis. It's almost like it's good to fire your trash front office and hire smart people. Hmmm.
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Jim Boylen earned his job by kissing ass and reinforcing John Paxson's outdated concepts of basketball. He and the Bulls are perfect together.
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Justin Fields won't play a game for months and this is already the closest the Bears have come to having a good quarterback since literally World War II
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Chicago didn't chant "Re-assign Gar To Scouting"
It didn't turn "Promote Paxson To A Position Of Less Authority" into a hashtag
The Bulls' rumored front office plan isn't good enough. GarPax must be fired. It's on Michael Reinsdorf to make it happen:
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To quote my guy
@BawlSports
' favorite stat, Zach LaVine has won four games in a row for the first time since he was at UCLA in 2014
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Bulls in first in the East at the All-Star break. Fire GarPax.
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This DeMar season is the best non-MJ season in Bulls history right now
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What the hell. Jose Alvarado just hid in the corner on an inbounds and darted in to force a travel on Caruso
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There's only one man in this world who Jimmy Butler deems worthy of his respect
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Only an organization as incompetent as the Bulls could turn a Ring of Honor night celebrating franchise icons into the feel-bad moment of the year
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Wait, the best part of this video comes one minute later when Felicio completes his 4-year, $32 million contract extension and Gar jokes about how quickly he signs it
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Jimmy Butler: 22 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists
Nets draft picks: 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists
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Anthony Davis not wanting to play in Chicago would be the ultimate validation for the widespread sentiment that John Paxson and Gar Forman must be fired in tandem immediately if Jerry Reinsdorf wasn't too busy watching Geoff Blum's walk-off World Series homer on constant loop
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GarPax never would have made a trade like this and for that reason alone I have no choice but to support it.
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Karl-Anthony Towns doesn't need to die for the sins of the 2012 Bulls
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Just a baffling decision by Kim Mulkey to have Hailey Van Lith guard Caitlin Clark. She's too small. Clark is licking her chops with this matchup, and Mulkey won't adjust.
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Jim Boylen has already held two practices that went over two hours. He tried to pull this garbage again following a back-to-back with a game tomorrow and the players told him they weren't practicing. Perfect.
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One reason I think the Bears can win today:
Mitch Trubisky drove a '97 Camry to dinner with Ryan Pace
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Luol Deng and Joakim Noah each got $72 million in their last contract. Rose gets $2.1 million
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The Bulls are proving they do not need to blow it up to tank
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The Bulls benched Taj behind worse players (Boozer, Pau) for his entire career. He never complained and always played his heart out.
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I still feel gobsmacked by Coby White's mid 5th year breakout. Dude has become one of the best spot-up threats in the league while also improving nearly every aspect of his floor game. The Bulls never develop anyone, and Coby's become a true stud almost of nowhere.
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Dennis Smith played this so well:
- Got 73K from one agent and then signed with a different agent
- Played on adidas' notoriously corrupt AAU league and then signed with Under Armour
- Surely received nothing from NC State just to get the coach fired and miss the NCAAs
HERO
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Duke's Grayson Allen tripped someone again, got a T, then had a meltdown on the bench
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Jaime Jaquez as "Juan Wick" ... an instant classic. Add it to the list.
We're two months into the season. Things are getting real. I decided it's time for a deep dive, where I look at every player in the league.
So I ranked the iconic Basketball-Reference nicknames
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The Bulls' Ring of Honor night was a low-rent disaster that turned into one of the ugliest moments in franchise history. Wrote about the ill-conceived, poorly executed event, and who should be considered the real villain in the organization's downfall:
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She was screaming from the first free throws of the game. She was screaming when the Bulls were down 19. She was screaming when Siakam missed the free throws to tie the game late.
Full 48 minute performance from Diar DeRozan. Masterclass in being annoying
Raptors shot 18-36 from the free throw line. Diar DeRozan's elite screaming ability won the Bulls the game.
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GarPax first round draft picks post-Jimmy Butler:
- Marquise Teague❌
- Tony Snell❌
- Doug McDermott❌
- Bobby Portis❌
- Denzel Valentine❌
- Lauri Markkanen❌
- Wendell Carter❌
- Chandler Hutchison❌
- Coby White
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Gotta credit the Bulls for playing a clearly injured Zach LaVine tonight to “maintain their rhythm” of losing by 20+ points every game
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Been saying this on the podcast, but if the Bulls don't re-sign Zach they may as well trade DeRozan and Vuc. Oh, and you're still out your 2023 and 2025 first round picks. As long as he can get back to 100% healthy over the offseason, LaVine is worth the investment.
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KC says Bulls are more willing to trade Pat Will than Caruso. Sure, deal the 22-year-old you spent four years developing at the absolute low point of his value and keep the 30-year-old at the high point of his value, on the brink of a rebuild. Just dumb
Is it in the Bulls' best interest to move Zach LaVine sooner rather than later?
On a new Bulls Talk Podcast,
@KCJHoop
,
@Jason1Goff
and
@Kevin_NBCS
discuss the recent trade rumors surrounding LaVine
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Markieff Morris: 0 points in 23 minutes, three turnovers, four fouls, also made the biggest mistake of the game
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Wrote about the NBA's most impactful superstar, Aron Baynes
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John Paxson has to wake up every morning and live with the fact that he ruined one of the great franchises in the NBA
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Invented a 'leadership council' that didn't exist, made grown men do push-ups and wind sprints at practice, put Ryan Arcidiacono on Giannis, spoke daily of 'growth plates and 'care factors', had no shame in losing to the worst team in the NBA, "prepare the children for the road"
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