Chicago Bulls Notes: Magic Keep Making the Bulls Look Bad, Playoff Resumes, More (2024)

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Did the Bulls get eliminated? ›

Chicago Bulls eliminated by Miami Heat with 112-91 rout in East play-in finale.

The Chicago Bulls have a 6-4 record without Michael Jordan in the playoffs all-time.

It also featured the return of Michael Jordan to the playoffs after a year and a half absence, returning in March, and the only time the Bulls didn't win a title with him on the roster since they started their string of consecutive titles in 1991.

The Bulls defeated the 4th-seeded Charlotte Hornets three games to one in the Eastern Conference First Round of the 1995 NBA Playoffs, but would eventually lose in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals to the Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic in six games.

Scottie Pippen wanted a lucrative contract after being underpaid for so long, and he was a soon-to-be 33-year-old with injury issues. Dennis Rodman was 37 years old and a handful to deal with. Steve Kerr and several other key role players needed new contracts.

Myers averaged 16.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game. Myers returned to the NBA in 1993 by signing with the Chicago Bulls and replaced the retiring Michael Jordan as starting shooting guard. Myers played all 82 regular season games for the first time in his NBA career and started 81.

The six NBA championships Jordan, Pippen and the 90s Bulls won would not have been possible without Pippen. He's arguably the greatest second-best player to exist on a team. Jordan recognized it too, famously saying "There is no Michael Jordan without Scottie Pippen." That's where the debates get interesting.

Grant Cohn on X: "Michael Jordan never won a playoff series without Scottie Pippen, but Pippen won one without Jordan." / X.

The surprising part is that Jordan actually DID get a career winning record without Scottie despite all those injuries, lack of experience, and off-court distractions. Jordan was 193–187 (0.508 win%) without Pippen in his career.

As dominant as Shaq was, he wasn't fearless when playing against Jordan. O'Neal talked about it during his appearance on IMPAULSIVE with Logan Paul. “He's the only man that had me terrified on the court.

Why did the Bulls lose to the Magic? ›

The Chicago Bulls competed hard but simply ran out of gas and took a 108-114 overtime loss to the Orlando Magic on Saturday night. Coach Billy Donovan said fatigue did the Bulls in, as they had three players who played at least 43 minutes.

---The Magic swept the four-game season series. It's the first time the Magic swept the season series from the Bulls in 16 years since the 2007-08 season. That doesn't account for the one-game season series in the COVID-shortened 2019-20 season. ---The Bulls tied their season-high with 21 turnovers.

And that's a wrap. The 1995-96 team is the greatest Bulls team of all-time, by virtue of a 4-1 series victory over the 1996-97 team and with the help of our partners at Strat-0-Matic, who supplied simulated games with play-by-play and box scores.

Yet four months later, on Oct. 6, 1993, after winning his third straight title with the Bulls, Michael Jordan — only 30 years old — walked away, retiring from the NBA after nine seasons.

1996 — The Chicago Bulls wrap up the most successful regular season in NBA history with their 72nd victory, getting 26 points from Michael Jordan in a 103-93 decision over Washington.

In their final season-deciding game in the play-in tournament against the Miami Heat, they were easily dispatched 91-112. Heat top star Jimmy Butler didn't even play, but Tyler Herro's 24 PTS and Jamie Jaquez Jr's 21 PTS were more than enough to dispatch the undermanned and outgunned Bulls.

The Bulls went 39-43 and got eliminated by Miami for the second straight year with a blowout loss Friday, even though the Heat were missing injured star Jimmy Butler. Chicago missed the playoffs for the third time in four seasons under Karnisovas and Donovan.

On one level, Chicago's season was a success: The Bulls made the playoffs for the first time since the 2016-17 season thanks to a roster overhaul led by vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley.

Chicago Bulls Last Playoff Appearance

The last time the Chicago Bulls made the playoffs was in the 2021/22 season, where they were eliminated by the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round.