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When I caught up with Jamal Crawford, he had just finished watching his buddy and former teammate, Zach Randolph, dominate the No. 1 seeded Spurs Friday and lead the Memphis Grizzlies to the improbable upset.

“We’ve been texting all series,” Crawford was saying. “It wasn’t too long ago me and him were with the Knicks and they were off to…

Let’s take an early look at the Bulls and Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference semifinals starting Monday (7 p.m.) at the United Center.

The Bulls won the season series 2-1 and the teams didn’t play for the first time all season until March 2, unusual on the NBA schedule. The Hawks won the first game in Atlanta behind a…

It wasn’t quite the ultimate goal, but all the same for the Bulls in this gift of an NBA season it was an accomplishment and a relief, the first round playoff series win with Tuesday’s going away 116-89 victory over the Indiana Pacers.

This hasn’t been a Bulls team that’s celebrated, not when they wrapped up the Central Division, not…

Though the Pacers find themselves down 3-1 in their first round best-of-seven series with the Bulls as the series returns to Chicago, there is no shortage of confidence in the Indiana locker room.

“We feel like if we win this game tonight, we’ll win the series,” said Pacers coach Frank Vogel, adding that his players share that belief “very strongly.”…

Game 5 back at the United Center Tuesday against the Indiana Pacers should be easy for the Bulls. After all, all they have to do is shoot better, score more, make fewer turnovers and pass the ball more effectively.

So how exactly are they ahead three games to one? That is certainly what the Pacers have been wondering.

It hasn’t…

It turns out Derrick Rose, in one respect, is like the rest of us: Day-to-day.

The Bulls said their star point guard and (my not so hard to make prediction) MVP is listed day-to-day with a sprained ankle for Tuesday’s Game 5 of the first round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers.

Rose took an MRI to get the second…

It may have best the best play the Bulls ran all game in Saturday’s 89-84 loss to the Indiana Pacers. Though, perhaps, it also crystallized the Bulls’ biggest issue as they try to make their way through these NBA playoffs.

The play drawn up by coach Tom Thibodeau with 17.9 seconds left and the Bulls on the verge of getting…

Signs of the 1990s Bulls?

No, no one is going there yet, at least we hope. Sure, the Bulls were coming into Saturday’s game against the Indiana Pacers with a 3-0 series lead. But it is the first round, and Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau, who has some bulk as well, likely will wrestle anyone to the ground who suggests there…

It’s not often a coach breaks a major story on an off day between playoff games with his team ahead three games to none, as the Bulls are with Game 4 in Indianapolis Saturday.

But Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau stunned everyone before practice Friday with this revelation about Derrick Rose.

“He is human,” Thibodeau said to gasps from assembled reporters.…

It’s not like Derrick Rose said it that way, but there was a sense in his comments Friday about Indiana’s physical play of “That’s all you got?”

“I’m happy I don’t have any stitches or anything,” said Rose. “As long as I’m OK, I could care less.”

Rose was reacting to word Saturday the NBA had changed two personal fouls…