Adrian Griffin

Early Friday night, new Bulls Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden were sharing their experience of starting for the Cavaliers in last year's NBA Finals, and that destination seemed like a faraway dream. Then, with those two and Shannon Brown and Cedric...

The Bulls have forged a reputation for hustle, energy and resiliency, not only rising when kicked but kicking back. How, then, to explain Monday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills? With a historically futile loss still bitter in their minds and history...

The true test for Joe Smith will come Wednesday. That's when the 12-year veteran will test his right knee, the one whose swelling had sidelined him until he made his Bulls debut Tuesday night at the United Center. Thirteen minutes during the Bulls' 97-...

Go ahead and take his lunch money, as Ben Gordon did earlier this week when the rookie brought the wrong doughnuts to practice. Haze him further by spelling his name wrong on his road reds, with longtime equipment manager John Ligmanowski laughing as the...

Perhaps there was one positive in the Bulls' collapse Sunday night against the Los Angeles Lakers. Though the 106-78 defeat was the Bulls' worst ever to the Lakers, it's unlikely that Kobe Bryant will want to play for the Bulls after seeing this....

And then they were 9-17. And so went the continuation of this discouraging Bulls season here Wednesday night in a 94-79 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Been there. Seen that. Somehow, interim coach Pete Myers was unable to get the Bulls shots to go...

The NBA's trading deadline passed today without the Lakers or Clippers making any last-minute moves. There was speculation that Clippers point guard Sam Cassell, 38, and in the final year of his contract, would be swapped to a playoff contender, but he...

The last time the Bulls visited the Wachovia Center, they played poorly and lost by 15. Wednesday night they committed 15 turnovers, shot 40 percent from the free-throw line and still won 88-87 on Kirk Hinrich's 18-foot jumper with 26.9 seconds...

It was the kind of game Tuesday night in which no one would have been surprised if the Bulls players suspended themselves. They certainly suspended their effort, energy and enthusiasm in a 102-88 surrender to the Orlando Magic, a team its own coach...

Alonzo Mourning has spent more hours in the weight room than Tyrus Thomas has in the NBA. So you would have to like the chiseled 14-year veteran's chances in the tussle those players appeared headed for in the latest chapter to this chippy Bulls-Heat...

How true were the rumors that the Bulls almost traded the No. 7 pick and Donyell Marshall for the No. 3 pick in the 2003 draft to get Dwyane Wade? And was the deal breaker the Bulls' reluctance to give up Marshall? I don't think many thought Wade would be...

LOS ANGELES - Despite recent improvements, Latino and black students continue to lag behind whites and Asians in becoming academically eligible to enter California's two public university systems, according to a state report released Tuesday. The study...