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Sometimes your best isn’t good enough. Sometimes your best won’t do. And so it was Saturday as the Bulls lost 122-116 to the Dallas Mavericks to fall back to .500.

The Bulls shot 52 percent and pushed the ball, which they need to do to score. They had the game’s high scorer. They outrebounded the Mavs, who, by the way, …

Free Joakim Noah!

Free Joakim Noah!

“I want to play,” the Bulls plantar fasciitis gripped center was saying quietly in the Bulls locker room after the team was blowing a 10-point third quarter lead and losing 101-95 to what passes for the Washington Wizards these days. “I want to play. What can say? I’m not going to go in the …

He wasn’t even supposed to be a first round draft pick. But now in taking over the power forward position for the Bulls in their best run of the season and enabling the team to trade Tyrus Thomas, rookie Taj Gibson is even making a case for being considered for NBA Rookie of the Year.

“Look at what he’s contributed …

Who are those guys wearing the Bulls uniforms?

Forget LeBron and Wade. The Bulls have Hakim the Dream and Flip to my Lou.

This is starting to get scary.

But in blowing out the Philadelphia 76ers Saturday 122-90, the Bulls won their fourth straight game in the last five nights, reached three games over .500 at 29-26 for the first …

By Adam Fluck

After missing seven games with plantar fasciitis in his left foot, Joakim Noah said he is ready to return to action when the Bulls host the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.

“Whatever minutes coach gives me out there tonight, I’m just going to go out there and try to do my best,” said Noah.

Noah has been …

Ho hum, another Bulls win.

This time 100-94 over the Minnesota Timberwolves with five players in double figures and two others with eight and led by the not traded Kirk Hinrich with 20 points, including a three to tie Ben Gordon’s alltime franchise record for three pointers made.

So make it 18 of their last 27, 14 of their last …

Now, that’s what I call a trading deadline.

The NBA had a fans’ delight week with some three dozen players changing teams, including about a half dozen former All Stars. While it didn’t carry the potential balance of power changing effect of the summer of 2010 free agency, it does potentially impact …

By Adam Fluck

Bulls General Manager Gar Forman outlined two goals on Thursday that the team had identified prior to the NBA’s trade deadline—creating salary cap flexibility heading into this summer to attract a maximum contract free agent and keeping the team’s nucleus together with the goal of the making the postseason still intact.

Following deals with Milwaukee and Charlotte, it …

By Adam Fluck

Bulls General Manager Gar Forman outlined two goals on Thursday that the team had identified prior to the NBA’s trade deadline—creating salary cap flexibility heading into this summer to attract a maximum contract free agent and keeping the team’s nucleus together with the goal of the making the postseason still intact.

Following deals with Milwaukee and Charlotte, it …

The Bulls early Thursday afternoon were trying to beat the trade deadline with a trade of Tyrus Thomas to the Charlotte Bobcats for guards Flip Murray and Acie Law, both of whom have expiring contracts, league sources confirmed.

The deal had not yet been completed, the sources said, but indications are the teams were trying to get it done and …