On Saturday the Blackhawks and Antti Niemi received the arbitrator’s decision to award Niemi $2.75 million for the 2010-11 season if the Hawks resign their restricted free agent. It is widely thought that the Blackhawks pursued a salary of closer to $2 million while Niemi and his agent Bill Zito were pushing for closer to [...]

There is plenty of tape of the Bulls’ new additions including Carlos Boozer, Kyle Korver, Ronnie Brewer, CJ Watson and Kurt Thomas. We generally have an idea of what each of these players will bring to the court this upcoming season. This is not the case with Bulls import, Omer Asik.
Asik, whom the Bulls picked [...]

In the last couple of weeks I have seen a whole lot of attention paid to a front I forgot existed, team diplomacy. The Bulls and White Sox have added two stars as “team ambassadors.”
As far as I understand it, Scottie Pippen and Frank Thomas are being paid to represent their prospective teams as a [...]

This photo is from back in March when Noah was recovering from Plantar Fascitis.  I’m sure he was just asking for directions to a local eatery, right?

h/t: Deadspin

We found out a few months ago that Michael Jordan would not only be on the cover of the new NBA 2k11, but that you could in fact play with him in the game.  Hopefully that would erase all the bad childhood memories of not being able to play with him in NBA Jam.  Apparently [...]

Today two Chicago franchises continued to take small steps in opposite directions. No, I am not writing about the White Sox and the Cubs, but the Bulls and Cubs. The Chicago Bulls continued their summer of baby steps by adding C.J. Watson via a side-and-trade with the Golden State Warriors. The Chicago Cubs manager Lou [...]

To be honest, I can’t remember what the White Sox ad campaign was for this 2010 season. I vaguely remember some black and white commercials but I couldn’t tell if they were a tribute to the passing of Michael Jackson or actually plugging the new Sox roster. No matter the clever slogans, it really didn’t [...]

Blah blah blah free agents blah blah blah.  What about what we already have?  The most electric young point guard in the league, Derrick Rose, has two facets of his game that need to improve drastically: 3-point shooting and defense.  There were rumors that he was in an LA gym with Tyreke Evans and trainer [...]

It certainly comes as no surprise to anyone in the basketball world that the LeBron James free agent show would take precedence over other superstar signings in the league. James took a prime-time stage while everyone else was lucky to catch a shout-out on Mike and Mike.
Durant quietly resigned with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Amar’e [...]

h/t: Javier Sandooski

The Chicago Cubs walked their way into relevancy at the 2010 MLB All Star game. Lone Cub representative Marlon Byrd began the seventh inning rally with a free pass. Scott Rolen and Matt Holliday followed with back-to-back singles and Braves catcher Brian McCann capped off the inning with a double off the White Sox reputed [...]

h/t: Lamebook

On Friday night, the Bulls extended an offer sheet to restricted free agent J.J. Redick for $19 million over 3 years. The Orlando Magic will now have seven days to match that offer from the Bulls. The Magic roster, as it is currently situated, is designed to win now at all costs. Their GM, Otis [...]

Nike is probably going to take this down soon, so watch while you can.  This is laugh out loud funny.  LeBron West.  Classic.

h/t: Rule V Draftee

To me at least.  Terrible call.  Terrible for LeBron, terrible for the NBA, terrible for everyone.  How could he possibly think this was the right decision?
On another note, I like Boozer I guess.  Anything? Anything? Nope, still shitty.