Bulls guard Coby White finishes second to the 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey in the league’s Most Improved Player Award. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Arturas Karnisovas didn’t have a vote. If the Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations did it would be a no-brainer in regards to the NBA’s 2024 Most Improved Player Award. “He’s made huge strides,” Karnisovas said of guard Coby White on Saturday. “For me, he’s most improved player this year.” The voters said differently. Prior to Tuesday night’s NBA playoff games, the league announced that Philadelphia guard Tyrese Maxey was voted the Most ..read more

Bulls guard Coby White (left) celebrates with forward DeMar DeRozan after scoring against the Hawks in a play-in tournament game on April 17 at the United Center. Nam Y. Huh/AP The Bulls aren’t in the playoffs, but they have two finalists for the NBA’s postseason awards. Forward DeMar DeRozan is a candidate for Clutch Player for the second consecutive season, and guard Coby White is a candidate for Most Improved Player. DeRozan finished behind Kings guard De’Aaron Fox for the Clutch award last season. Among the criteria are fourth-quarter scoring, usage rate in clutch games — which the l ..read more

Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas has admittedly made mistakes in assessing this current core roster. Now he’s going to need some creativity to get out of the mess he’s in. Michael Reaves/Getty Images There was excitement around the early days of the Arturas Karnisovas regime for good reason. The Bulls’ executive vice president of basketball operations stepped in, gave a fair evaluation of the situation, and by Year 2 was already flipping the roster. It was impressive and it also paid almost instant dividends with the Bulls playing like a Eastern ..read more

Haywood Highsmith dunks the ball against the Bulls during the Play-In Tournament game Friday in Miami. Rich Storry/Getty Images Belief is a funny thing. It makes you overthink and second-guess yourself at the same time. It can make you soul-search and come out with an answer you know is not true. It can make you lie even when the inevitable is as inevitable as anything in the history of inevitability. And then there’s the Bulls. Where belief goes to die. Where they’ve found a way over the last three seasons to distinguish with clarity the diametric difference in believing in something an ..read more

Bulls veteran DeMar DeRozan has a lot to unpack this summer now that his team has again come up short this season. The free agent-to-be first has to come to grips with again losing to Miami and its “Heat Culture.” Wilfredo Lee/AP MIAMI — A 1,200-mile plane ride from Miami to Chicago isn’t going to cure this one. Not this time. It is going to take veteran DeMar DeRozan much longer than that to get over the Bulls’ season-ending loss Friday. ‘‘I’m pretty sure the next couple of days, couple of weeks, a lot of emotions are going to be all over the place,’’ DeRozan said minutes after the Bull ..read more

Bulls coach Billy Donovan remains very hopeful that Lonzo Ball is headed for a return. He also sees a roster in which Ball can play and be productive even with the emergence of Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP MIAMI – It would seem that the guard room at the Bulls facility should have a “filled to capacity” sign hanging outside the door come next fall. After all, Coby White has emerged as a Most Improved Player of the Year candidate, Ayo Dosunmu has been playing stellar basketball for months, Alex Caruso is an All-NBA defender, Dalen Terry has become the 6th man lately ..read more

Jimmy Butler has had his way with the Bulls since they traded him back in 2017, but revenge could be coming now that the Heat star is sidelined with a knee injury. Lynne Sladky/AP There was no hiding from the bright lights. Especially down on South Beach where flashy and bright is a way of life. Just over two minutes left in the final win-or-go-home play-in game, the Heat down one, and Jimmy Butler makes the go-ahead layup. From that point on, Miami ran the Bulls off the floor and right into an early summer vacation, then going on an impromptu run to the NBA Finals. The final stat line f ..read more

The Bulls’ Coby White battles with the Hawks’ Dejounte Murray for a loose ball during the play-in tournament on April 17, 2024 at United Center. Jamie Sabau/Getty Images There were times when DeMar DeRozan felt like his words weren’t getting through this season. That the lessons he was trying to teach weren’t being understood. To his credit, the Bulls veteran didn’t stop his post-game media sessions that at times sounded like sermons. The latest came last week, when he was insisting that this short-handed roster had to understand the moment and taking advantage of what was in front of th ..read more

White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is looking to launch his own regional sports network. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP The market for regional sports networks isn’t what it was 10 years ago, when the Dodgers were only a year into a 25-year, $8.35 billion deal with then-Time Warner Cable to launch SportsNet LA. It’s not even what it was five years ago, when the Cubs launched Marquee Sports Network. But that won’t stop White Sox and Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf from entering the fray with his own RSN, and according to noted sports business consultant Marc Ganis, it shouldn’t. “It may be the be ..read more

Ayo Dosunmu was sidelined the last week of the regular season with a bad quad, while Andre Drummond was dealing with a bum left ankle. Both were cleared to play against the Hawks on Wednesday. Jamie Sabau/Getty Full strength seemed more pipedream than reality for the Bulls leading up to Wednesday’s play-in game, but the organization finally received some good news in that department. Both Ayo Dosunmu (right thigh contusion) and Andre Drummond (left ankle) were cleared to play against the Hawks, giving the Bulls some much welcomed depth. And not just welcomed, but needed, especially with ..read more