Nazr Mohammed

The only thing he thought about was staying on the ground long enough to gather himself. It’s all that ran through LeBron James’ mind after being shoved to the floor by Chicago Bulls center Nazr Mohammed. Just stay down long enough to...

NEW YORK — If the walking boot didn't give away Kirk Hinrich's status as he limped into Monday's morning shootaround, the glum expression on his face did. Hinrich succumbed to the bruised left calf he suffered early in Saturday's triple-overtime...

For the first time, Jimmy Butler began to show fatigue It was moments after he played an integral role in the Chicago Bulls upsetting the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Monday at AmericanAirlines Arena. Butler was finally...

This Bulls season has been a wacky one, filled with breathless updates of an inactive Derrick Rose that haven't really updated the situation; game-winning shots and groan-inducing turnovers; and the non-stop energy that is Nate Robinson. Given all that,...

Taj Gibson has 10 more fouls than rebounds through six games of the Bulls' first-round playoff series with the Nets and has fouled out twice. "It's just rough," Gibson said. "We watch the film. We look at the fouls and the refs are always apologizing,...

NEW YORK — Over lunch in Las Vegas last summer, Bulls general manager Gar Forman and free-agent NBA center Jason Collins met to discuss what Collins might offer Chicago. The word pioneer never came up. "A very, very impressive guy,'' Forman...

Winning 45 games with 15 starting lineups that didn't include Derrick Rose demonstrated Tom Thibodeau's coaching ability even more than the Bulls posting the NBA's best regular-season record in his each of his first two seasons. The Bulls did it with...

NEW YORK — Derrick Rose won't be walking through the Barclays Center tunnel. Well, at least in uniform he won't. Neither will a plantar fasciitis-free Joakim Noah, a non-knee-brace-wearing Taj Gibson nor Kirk Hinrich without a bruised left thigh....

In NBA playoff parlance, we call this a gift. The beaten-up, struggling, Derrick-Rose-less Bulls get a first-round playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets, perhaps the dumbest team in the league. The Bulls won three of the four games against the Nets...

I want to say the Bulls quit in Game 1 of their playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets, but you have to show up first. So, you can’t call them quitters. Call them whatever it is that rolls over and dies before the start of the most important...

When an epic affair like the Bulls' 142-134 triple overtime victory over the Nets finally collapses at the finish line — 3 hours, 57 minutes after Saturday's matinee tipoff — the number of big plays and big contributors can be dizzying....

On the eve of the Bulls' first-round series with the Nets, Nazr Mohammed, who drew 19 "Did Not Play — Coach's Decision" designations this season, quipped that Tom Thibodeau had been saving him for big moments. Those came down the stretch of the...