January 27, 2012 – Bulls General Manager Gar Forman, along with players Jimmy Butler and John Lucas III, hosted the Mercy Home for Boys & Girls Hoops to Homework NBA-style draft on Thursday night in Mercy Home’s Noha Gymnasium. Now entering its 22nd season, Hoops to Homework is an annual, weekend basketball tournament that encourages young men living at Mercy Home for Boys & Girls to keep up with their studies. Each young person's participation in weekly games is based on maintaining a strong academic standing.

I don’t understand the “controversy” over Scalabrine taking the key shot at the end of the Pacers game. Although I don’t see as many NBA games in person as I’d like to, and certainly not nearly as many as you do, when I do I try to watch warm-ups where I often see centers routinely hitting long, unguarded jump shots. I remember seeing Gheorge Muresan make 10-12 straight open 20-footers in warm-ups. For Rose to pass up a highly contested driving shot for a wide open (was anyone within 10 feet?) jump shot by an above-average-shooting power forward seems like a no-brainer to me.

Chicago, IL (January 26, 2012) – Comcast SportsNet, the television home for the most games and most comprehensive coverage of the NBA Central Division/Eastern Conference first place Chicago Bulls, delivered its highest regular season Bulls game rating in network history last evening – an 8.73 household rating for its live coverage of the Bulls home contest against the Indiana Pacers.