Eric Piatkowski

With the seven-game winning streak snapped and a 92-83 Celtics victory annoying them for the entire charter flight home, the Bulls reacted with a collective shrug Wednesday night. Nights like this happen throughout the course of the NBA season went the...

Between the lines, the NBA doesn't do sympathy, whether your franchise has just two victories in January or it's merely tired and sick. The Bulls know this as well as anyone, given the six very lean seasons they have endured. Now that the doldrums are...

Last Nov. 23, the Bulls practiced in Phoenix with an 0-9 record, Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler unhappy over being removed from the starting lineup and about as much hope for the future as victories. The possibility of a nine-game winning streak seemed as...

The Bulls don't do sympathy. But with the crazy number of crazy things that have befallen them lately—Eddy Curry's irregular heartbeat, Luol Deng's torn wrist ligament, Othella Harrington's extended absence awaiting his daughter's birth—maybe their...

When all five starters are on the bench watching first-quarter action because of ineffective play, it rarely means good things. Nineteen turnovers typically are a precursor to a quiet postgame locker room and a somber postmortem from the coach. Forty-...

Most teams' 12th men have about as much chance of seeing game action as the beer vendor. Not this Bulls team. On a night when Kirk Hinrich sat with a sore hamstring, the Bulls replaced their heart and soul with a collective effort of help and hustle....

Dikembe Mutombo, a Bull for 33 days over the summer, smiled Thursday night when asked if he was happy as a Rocket. "Very," the veteran center said. "There was nothing personal [against Chicago]. I just didn't want to go to a rebuilding process. I'm close...

The Bulls flew home late Monday night, returning to where Andres Nocioni no longer will be booed on each touch, Kirk Hinrich might receive a call or two more and Ben Gordon might find his missing shooting stroke under Benny the Bull's costume or...

The Bulls call it "the midnight rule," and the principle has guided them on this season's journey—from the dreadful 0-9 start through the January surge to the recent spate of injuries. Its premise is simple: Enjoy the victories until midnight, then...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why a fourth-quarter Bulls lineup consisted of Jannero Pargo, Ben Gordon, Adrian Griffin, Eric Piatkowski and Andres Nocioni. Too bad this wasn't a home game so that public-address announcer Steve...

The office of the district attorney who plans to prosecute Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant for felony sexual assault was locked down yesterday afternoon after a series of telephoned death threats. Eagle County (Colo.) District Attorney Mark...