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The Bulls entered the season as defending NBA champions, having defeated the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1996 NBA Finals in six games, winning their fourth NBA championship. During the off-season, the Bulls signed 43-year old free agent All-Star center Robert Parish , who won three championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1980s.
Widely regarded as the greatest team in NBA history, the 1995–96 Bulls were named one of the Top 10 Teams in NBA History during the celebration of the league's 50th anniversary in 1996. [12] The team set the record for most wins in an NBA regular season in which they won the championship, finishing with 72 wins and 10 losses.
Whether or not the Warriors win the championship, they will forever be compared to the Michael Jordan-led '96 Bulls, the team widely regarded as one of the best teams in sports history. The roster ...
The Bulls were coming off a season where they lost in the second round of the playoffs to the Orlando Magic.Heading into the upcoming season, Chicago was no longer the same team as they were in their most recent championship season of 1993, having lost key members of their first three-peat core in John Paxson and Bill Cartwright who retired while Horace Grant, B. J. Armstrong, Stacey King ...
Six players from the 1997–98 Bulls (Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Steve Kerr, Luc Longley, Jud Buechler, [6] and Scott Burrell [13]) joined other teams through free agency or sign-and-trade deals, and with few established players left on the roster, the Bulls missed the 1999 playoffs. This began a six-year playoff drought, the longest such ...
The Chicago Bulls finished the season with a combined regular season and postseason record of 87–13, the best in NBA history. [7] Chicago's 72 wins remained an NBA record until 2015–16 , when the Golden State Warriors , who were coached by ex-Bulls guard Steve Kerr , posted a 73–9 record, despite winning a combined 88 regular season and ...
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The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference. The team was founded on January 16, 1966, and played its first game during the 1966–67 NBA season. [9]