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Video: What is Deng's future in Chicago?

ESPN ESPN analyst and former NBA player Tim Legler takes a look at what the Chicago Bulls need to do with Luol Deng as he enters the final year of his contract.
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Video: Would LeBron beat Jordan?

ESPN (ESPNChicago.com) — Chris Broussard and Skip Bayless react to Alonzo Mourning saying that Scottie Pippen said LeBron James would beat Michael Jordan.
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Bulls player review: Taj Gibson

ESPN (Nick Friedell) — Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Taj Gibson2012-13 salary: $2,155,811 | Age: 27 | Season stats: 8.0 ppg, 5.3 rpgSeason recap: Playing without Omer Asik for the first time in two seasons, Gibson struggled to replicate his success over the first couple months of the year. After signing an extension on opening night, the...
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Bulls player review: Jimmy Butler

ESPN (Nick Friedell) — Nick Friedell looks at each player on the Chicago Bulls roster and how they fit in for the future. Jimmy Butler2012-13 salary: $1,066,920 | Age: 23 | Season stats: 8.6 ppg, 4.0 rpgSeason recap: After struggling to find a consistent place in Tom Thibodeau's rotation for the first couple months of his second season, Butler flourished toward the middle of January when Luol Deng went down with a...
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Friedell: Should Bulls trade Deng?

ESPN (Nick Friedell) — CHICAGO -- Luol Deng has been such an integral part of the Chicago Bulls' success over the past three years under Tom Thibodeau that the idea of Deng playing somewhere else will make the veteran coach cringe. But it's a notion that Thibodeau should at least consider as the Bulls go about trying to upgrade their roster over the summer, and it's the single biggest non-Derrick Rose question...
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King says MPG should decrease next year

ESPN (Staff) — Television analyst Stacey King said one thing should change next season in order to help the Chicago Bulls perform better in the postseason."The coaching staff is going to have to dial down a little bit during the regular season," King said Thursday on "The Carmen & Jurko Show" on ESPN 1000. "Because I think now three years in a row you've seen the Bulls players ... they had the best record...
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'Beat the Heat' mission begins for Bulls

ESPN (Doug Padilla) — DEERFIELD, Ill. -- The Chicago Bulls' unofficial slogan heading into the 2013-14 season will be "Beat the Heat."The theme already started in earnest Thursday, one day after the team's season ended with an Eastern Conference semifinals defeat at the hands of LeBron James and Co.Coach Tom Thibodeau made that very case a part of his final address to the team at the Berto Center, especially since...
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In the end, Thibs feels Rose made right call

ESPN (Doug Padilla) — DEERFIELD, Ill. – Although he wasn't on the premises Thursday, Derrick Rose remained the topic of conversation at the Berto Center, one day after the Chicago Bulls' season ended in an Eastern Conference semifinals defeat to the Miami Heat.Rose and Joakim Noah had permission to skip coach Tom Thibodeau's final meeting and both reportedly remained in Florida.By the time Thibodeau welcomes...
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Thibs hopes Noah won't need surgery

ESPN (Doug Padilla) — DEERFIELD. Ill. -- Rest and recovery is now on tap for many Chicago Bulls players now that the season has come to a close.The walking wounded included Joakim Noah and his sore feet, Kirk Hinrich and his calf injury, Luol Deng and his complications from a spinal tap and, of course, Derrick Rose, who still needs to regain the necessary confidence after his ACL injury last April.Coach Tom...
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Scoop: Leave this Bulls roster alone

ESPN (Scoop Jackson) — A message to Gar Forman: DO NOT TOUCH.Please, don't touch or do anything that would have any significant impact on this team. We all know that it's almost by nature that general managers make serious changes or drastically "tweak" their teams in the offseason if they don't win their last game, but just once let this team be the exception to that rule. Gar, you gotta let this one ride.All you...
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Grading the Bulls: Who would you keep?

ESPN (Staff) — Nick Friedell grades the Bulls, and ESPN Chicago gives you a chance to vote on which players you would keep, and which you would let go.Vote
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Who will be back with Bulls next season?

ESPN (Nick Friedell) — MIAMI -- For the second consecutive year, the Chicago Bulls head into the summer knowing that their team will look a lot different in October than it did at the end of the season. The Bulls' core, led by a presumably healthy Derrick Rose, will be largely intact barring a major trade this summer. The same cannot be said about the bench. With that in mind, let's take a quick look at the Bulls...
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Chat alert: Friedell on Bulls' season at 12

ESPN (Staff) — Got questions about the Bulls' season or future? Nick Friedell enters the chat room at 12 CT.Submit questions here and come back for the chat.
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Even healthy, Bulls still can't beat Heat

ESPN (Nick Friedell) — MIAMI -- The Chicago Bulls deserve all the praise in the world for dragging themselves to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. They played the underdog role well and continued fighting all the way up until Jimmy Butler's three-pointer clanked away just before the buzzer of their 94-91 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 5 on Wednesday night. They gave fans a reason to be proud in a...
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Video: Legler breaks down Game 5

ESPN (ESPNChicago.com) — Tim Legler breaks down the Heat's 94-91 win over the Bulls.
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