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It wasn’t supposed to be going like this, not just a few games short of halfway through the season, Derrick Rose still an interested spectator and with a roster of seven new players.

But with Wednesday’s thrilling 107-105 overtime win over the Toronto Raptors on Luol Deng’s pull up 18-footer with 3.3 seconds left in overtime, the Bulls have quietly …

Joakim Noah is not a morning person. You, of course, can just about tell by his looks. But really, few in the NBA are. After all, they really are second shift workers, needing to be at their best around 9 p.m. So 9 a.m. is a bit early for a lot of noise to say nothing about adjectives.

But that’s …

The stars were twinkling, the night was clear and crisp. The Bulls had themselves a wonderful evening. It just didn’t happen to be the most recent one, Saturday, when the Phoenix Suns, who’d lost 11 of their last 12 games and were playing their fourth game in five nights, dominated the Bulls in 97-81 rout.

“We’re going on the road …

The Knicks are supposed to be the second best team in the Eastern Conference, even beyond their 23-13 runner up record to the Miami Heat. The Bulls Friday in New York defeated the Knicks 108-101 for the third consecutive time this season, and in a game Knicks’ players have been saying they had circled after the beating they took from …

That was a terrific win in Miami the Bulls had last week. And then there was that basketball clinic the Bulls put on Monday in a win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Which, unfortunately, has led to a numbers of emails I’ve received in the last few days.

Here’s a sample of one:

“When Michael Jordan retired the first time …

There have been the disappointing, embarrassing and uncertain times for the Bulls this season, the 27-point blown lead at home to the Bucks, the Bulls next home opponent Wednesday with Scott Skiles out and Jim Boylan in as interim; the home losses to New Orleans and Charlotte, two of the four losingest teams in the NBA. There were the blowout …

Chicago Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is among the new nominees for enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The news was first reported by NBA.com.

“I am both surprised and humbled by the nomination,” said Reinsdorf, one of the candidates for the Contributor category. “To be even mentioned in the company of current members of the Naismith Memorial …

That’s it! That’s all you got?

Well, nobody on the Bulls actually said that after a convincing and impressive 96-89 road win Friday over the defending champion Miami Heat. But the Bulls in going to 18-13 essentially said that with their dominant play.

No one is quite writing off the Heat yet as they still lead the Eastern Conference with …

Derrick Rose will be there in Miami Friday when the Bulls get their first crack this season at the defending champion Miami Heat. But it’s not quite the same, obviously, with Rose sidelined likely another few months recovering from his knee injury and surgery.

These were the kind of games you circled the calendar for the last few years, the …

It hasn’t been the best of times, this 2012-13 NBA season for Taj Gibson, at least on the basketball court. Off the court, well, that was different as Gibson agreed to a $33 million contract extension. But in some sense that made it even worse. Because Gibson does care. Gibson has been a lifetime overachiever, right up to his contract …