Othella Harrington

On that humiliating night last Nov. 22 in Phoenix, Kirk Hinrich did a slow burn as he dressed in front of his locker, angry and embarrassed after the Bulls tied a franchise record by falling to 0-9. "I hope we let this hurt," Hinrich said then....

The Bulls are selling hope this season, which isn't the glitziest marketing tool when a team is six seasons and 341 losses removed from its glory days. But if such esoteric concepts are as exciting as Friday night's game, this could work. All the...

Good teams, like the San Antonio Spurs, feature equal-opportunity scoring. The Bulls feature equal-opportunity benchings. On a Monday night when Tim Duncan looked more ordinary than dominant, the Bulls were still blown out in a 91-75 loss to the Spurs...

With a steroids scandal possibly set to rock Major League Baseball, Shaquille O'Neal revealed his secret Friday night at the United Center. "I've always taken Flintstones vitamins," he said. "Bam Bam is my favorite." Properly fortified, O'Neal dropped...

They were quiet for different reasons Saturday night, one sitting for too much aggressiveness, the other for not enough. As Tyson Chandler furiously pedaled a stationary bicycle to get loose, his standard fourth-quarter minutes being gobbled up by...

Hey! We've got March Madness here at the United Center. Hey! Hey! Look at the Bulls, please. The Bulls, especially Eddy Curry, were looking good Saturday night in opening a big early lead on the Indiana Pacers. Curry was having one of his rare monster...

As they bounded off the Target Center court Sunday evening, the Bulls couldn't have cared less that they'd let a 13-point second-half lead disintegrate. Or that the Timberwolves had played without Sam Cassell, Wally Szczerbiak and, for the second half,...

The Bulls trailed by 35. Luol Deng sat in the locker room with a sprained ankle. Boos rained down with intensity and frequency from the sellout crowd of 21,755. And, finally, Scott Skiles had seen enough. Like a shift change in a Blackhawks game, five...

Between the lines, the NBA doesn't do sympathy, whether your franchise has just two victories in January or it's merely tired and sick. The Bulls know this as well as anyone, given the six very lean seasons they have endured. Now that the doldrums are...

Last Nov. 23, the Bulls practiced in Phoenix with an 0-9 record, Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler unhappy over being removed from the starting lineup and about as much hope for the future as victories. The possibility of a nine-game winning streak seemed as...

Almost all NBA coaches say that losses stick in the psyche far longer than victories are savored, and that certainly will be the case for the 2004-05 Bulls. From the season-opening, double-overtime loss to New Jersey to the Dec. 13 meltdown against...

The Bulls don't do sympathy. But with the crazy number of crazy things that have befallen them lately—Eddy Curry's irregular heartbeat, Luol Deng's torn wrist ligament, Othella Harrington's extended absence awaiting his daughter's birth—maybe their...