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      <title>Derrick Rose &#8220;mentally preparing&#8221; for 2013-2014 preseason schedule</title>
      <description>After a 2012-2013 season full of rehabilitating and mentally preparing, Chicago Bulls&#8217; point guard Derrick Rose is officially setting the timetable for his triumphant return to the floor. Rose hopes that by this fall, he will be mentally prepared to play in the preseason.
Since being cleared in March by team doctors physically, Rose was forced to work on his mental issues for the last two months of the 2012-2013 season. He continually expressed his desire to get back on the court &#8220;at some point&#8221; during the season, but he failed to log a single minute, despite the Bulls playing their arch-nemesis Miami Heat.
This summer, Rose will continue to exercise his mind and build the mental strength needed to compete at the highest level. The mental exercise programs he will go through is said to be similar to SAT preparation courses that high schoolers take. In an ironic twist, this will be the first time Rose will study in this manner, as he had his SAT taken for him while attending Simeon H...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Nate the Great: Bull no more?</title>
      <description>via CSN Chicago

Nate Robinson answered the call for the Chicago Bulls. Everyone was unanimous that he has exceeded all expectations, as did the entire team. Nate had the biggest shoes to fill, and he was a paradigm of the overwhelming odds they had to face. His brave, no-holds-barred attitude was applauded by all. Yet, the reality of Rose&#8217;s return will propel him to a different landing spot come November.
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When the Bulls signed&#160;Nate Robinson&#160;as a free agent last summer, the prevailing sentiment was that the diminutive scorer would offer some offensive firepower off the bench in limited spurts behind&#160;Kirk Hinrich&#160;and eventually, Derrick Rose, which was reflected in his one-year contract, which was only partially guaranteed.
Instead, Rose never played and Hinrich &#8212; more of a true floor general and no longer the same scoring threat he was in his initial Bulls stint &#8212; suffered multiple injuries during the season, putting Robinson in position to start frequently, as...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:51:49 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Rose has its Thorn: Beal thinks DRose was &#8216;scared&#8217; to return</title>
      <description>via Washington Post

Swagger is the word these days. As we are all encouraged to keep it real, even rookies can express their opinions openly on their interviews. It&#8217;s not a bad thing, and it makes the league more interesting. &#160;Players are expected to be most sympathetic to their fellow players, but swag is not about sympathy. Bradley Beal, fringe rookie of the year runner up, has no reverence for the former MVP.
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Derrick Rose suffered an ACL injury last April and missed the entire 2012-13 season as a result. Despite being&#160;medically cleared to play in March, Rose decided to keep himself out, and has taken some heat for it. The criticism swelled when the injury-laden Bulls made, and then were knocked out of, the playoffs without Rose stepping onto the court once.
Some think it&#8217;s a mental issue, others have speculated it to be a business move designed to prove his worth. Rose insists that his self-benching is because he didn&#8217;t feel physically ready to play.

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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:01:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Report: Beal says Rose is 'scared'</title>
      <description>The Bulls' season is over, but Derrick Rose continues to be criticized.

Wizards rookie Bradley Beal told the Washington radio station 106.7 The Fan that he thought Derrick Rose was &quot;scared&quot; to return after sitting out the entire season and the playoffs recovering from knee surgery.

&quot;He might have to give it a go,&quot; Beal said. &quot;If you're practicing for two months, and then everybody in practice is saying you're practicing well, I mean, I think you have to give it a shot in the game. Look at David Lee. You don't have to play significant minutes, but the fact that you're out there and that you're actually giving it a go, I think people will respect that.&quot;

Rose, who suffered a torn ACL and two meniscus tears during last year's playoffs, was cleared by the team to play but never suited up for the Bulls, who lost to the Heat 4-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Beal, who averaged 13.9 points last season, added that he would lose respect for a teammat</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:49:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Beal: Derrick Rose is scared </title>
      <description>Derrick Rose's decision to sit out the entire year has caused Washington Wizards first-round pick Bradley Beal to lose respect for the Chicago Bulls guard.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:15:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Bulls rumors: Nate Robinson unlikely to return</title>
      <description>The Chicago Bulls signed guard Nate  Robinson to a one-year free agent contract for the league minimum prior to last season. Robinson developed into a consistent scorer and shot creator for Chicago, and he became a fan favorite. While Robinson has said he&#8217;d like to return with the Bulls, and the team isn&#8217;t ruling anything out, Aggrey Sam of CSN Chicago believes that the undersized scorer is likely to be playing elsewhere next season.With Derrick  Rose missing the season due to injury and Kirk Hinrich also plagued by several different ailments throughout the year, Robinson became one of the Bulls&#8217; top scoring options. He turned in his best season, showcasing his abilities into the playoffs.Considering the Bulls expect to get Rose and Hinrich back healthy next season, and with up-and-comer Marquis  Teague on the roster, Sam believes it will be hard for Chicago to fit Robinson in.Beyond making room on the roster, Robinson&#8217;s performance will command more of a commitment than one-year at the minimum. Consi</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Bulls&#8217; Joakim Noah could require foot surgery</title>
      <description>Chicago Bulls forward/center Joakim  Noah was hampered throughout the end of the season due to his plantar fascia injury. Now that the season is over, coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters &#8211; including Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun-Times &#8211; that Noah&#8217;s ailment could require surgery.&#8220;That hasn&#8217;t been determined,&#8217;&#8217; Thibodeau said of Noah undergoing surgery. &#8220;Obviously, we&#8217;d like to avoid the surgery. He has responded a lot better. He has found something that has worked. We want him to get completely healthy That will be the focus, getting him back to 100 percent. He needs some rest, as most of the guys do. Same thing with Luol. We have to get him completely healthy again. Those are two players that we&#8217;ll be on top of right away.&#8217;&#8217;Noah played through the end of the regular season and into the playoffs experiencing extreme discomfort in his foot. The injury is something that requires rest, something that Noah couldn&#8217;t afford at with the Bulls&#8217; season ongoing.Now that the season is over, Noa</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Derrick Rose and the Reality of Sports</title>
      <description>Derrick Rose teaches us an important lesson. (Credit)

Every sports fan has his or her own &#8220;Santa isn&#8217;t real&#8221; moment. It&#8217;s that one instance when suddenly, the idea that sports is a business makes sense. That these guys don&#8217;t exist solely in the prism of their sport, that their interests don&#8217;t always align with ours, or even that the game doesn&#8217;t mean quite as much as we thought it did.

We try to ignore these moments. We pretend that they never happened, or we try to justify them in ways that don&#8217;t quite make sense. But really, it&#8217;s only a game, and when we pretend otherwise, we&#8217;re only setting ourselves up to get hurt.

When I watched &quot;The Decision&quot;, I was angry. I was bitter. I was confused. But most of all, I was disappointed.

I&#8217;d never seen LeBron&#160;as anything other than King James. When you spend a decade hearing comparisons to &quot;His Royal Airness&quot; and watching him knock out milestone after milestone, you just come to expect certain things.

He was supposed ...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 02:09:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>What will the Chicago Bulls do this offseason?</title>
      <description>The Chicago Bulls have clearly become the most respected team in the NBA for their ability to continue fighting and never say die attitude, while being shorthanded. Injuries and illness prevented the Bulls from a better seed and perhaps a deeper run in the postseason. In back to back years the Bulls have seen their season end earlier than anticipated for the same reason.

Due to the Derrick Rose injury and uncertain return date, the Bulls front office opted not to sign the majority of the free agents from last year&#8217;s team. They also refused to match the insane contract the Rockets gave their backup center Omer Asik. The front office came under a great deal of scrutiny for letting some valuable bench players go, while instead signing a bunch of players nobody believed in, including Nate Robinson.

Tom Thibodeau did everything in his power to keep this team&#8217;s head above water.&#160; To his credit, guys like Marco Belinelli, Nate Robinson and anyone else who stepped on the floor for the...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Bulls Nate Robinson &amp; Rip Hamilton flick up with Drake on South Beach </title>
      <description>The Chicago Bulls but their heart and soul into the playoffs. Even though they were defeat 4-1 in the series. The Bulls came in and gave the Heat a gut check in game one plus epitomized the word scrappy. After the final buzzer sounded Wednesday night, a few of the Bulls team members enjoyed the gift that is South Beach. Rip Hamilton and Nate Robinson flicked it up with Drake at Prime 112.

Nate always seems to be a unifying force on whatever team he plays for. I hope the Bulls bring him back this summer.
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:07:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Rose to help pay for infant's funeral</title>
      <description>Photo credit: dialoguemagazine.com/AP It&#8217;s been a rough stretch for Derrick Rose lately, which was punctuated by the Chicago Bulls being eliminated from the playoffs by the Miami Heat last night. Twitter was abuzz with Derrick Rose tweets, and his mentions were something you wouldn&#8217;t want your children reading. However, sometimes we forget that things are bigger than basketball, and sports in general. In criticizing Rose, we don&#8217;t seek out some of the good things, like this story of Rose offering to help pay the funeral costs for a slain 6-month old baby in Chicago. Dan Devine of Yahoo! Sports&#8217; Ball Don&#8217;t Lie gives us some more details about the incident which led to the death of Jonylah Watkins: A 6-month-old girl died after being shot five times in Chicago on Monday afternoon while her father was reportedly standing on the curb, changing her diaper on the front seat of a minivan. It was the 62nd homicide of 2013 in the city, according to&#160;RedEye Chicago; last year,&#160;more than 500 homicides&#160;were r</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:42:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Bulls Will Buy Out Richard Hamilton</title>
      <description>Richard Hamilton scored 15 points in 35 minutes of the Chicago Bulls' Game 5 loss to the Miami Heat, and he knows he likely does not have a future with the organization.
The Bulls will buy out Hamilton for $1 million this offseason.
Hamilton has said he hopes to play two more seasons.
&quot;Even though the last two weeks have been hard, my teammates have been  great,&quot; Hamilton said. &quot;They were so supportive of me and dumbfounded by  the situation. They kept me going.&quot;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:04:59 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Nate Robinson Guarantees a Bulls Win; Derrick Rose Going to Sit This One Out</title>
      <description>Wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if Derrick Rose seeing his team looking defeated and ready to surrender, took off his Brooks Brothers suit and went into battle with them?
The Captain going down with the ship so to speak? &#160;I doubt he could hurt his knee in one game right? &#160;It would be symbolic that he is back and next season he will be a forced to be reckoned with.
Yeah, that isn&#8217;t happening.
Chicago Bulls&#160;guard&#160;Derrick Rose&#160;was ruled out of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the&#160;Miami Heat&#160;on Wednesday, meaning he could officially miss the entire season after undergoing ACL surgery on May 12, 2012.
&#8220;Everybody is counting us out including you all, so for us it&#8217;s going to be that much sweeter coming in getting a win tonight, proving all you guys wrong,&#8221;&#160;Nate Robinson&#160;said.
I expect the Bulls to give it everything they got, but they are just outgunned. I know personally I have a great respect for the heart they showed during these playoffs.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:49:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Just how bad were the Bulls in Game 4?</title>
      <description>We know that the Chicago Bulls have been running on fumes for their entire playoff run, what with their lineup decimated by injuries and all. That said, the futility the Bulls displayed during a disastrous Game 4 was stupefying. Of course, a large helping of credit goes to the Miami Heat, whose defense was stifling, but this was no ordinary stinkbomb by a bad offensive team.  First, a few basic stats: the 65 points scored by the Bulls set a franchise playoff low, as did their nine third quarter points and 25.7 percent shooting from the floor. As if those rudimentary numbers don&#8217;t paint a bleak enough picture for how awful the Bulls were at putting the ball in the basket, consider the following comparisons (some of which are entirely irrelevant, but in times as dark as these one must try to find some levity). Some numbers: 9: The number of Chicago Cubs players with a batting average higher than the Bulls&#8217; field goal percentage from Game 4. Consider the fact that the Cubs are the wors...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:24:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Derrick Rose GMAIL Inbox is Quite Comical (Photo)</title>
      <description>I blame the Bulls for the slander Rose is taking right now. If they would have handled this public relations aspect of this properly, people would have just assumed Rose was still legitimately hurt.
Now, everyone knows that the only thing wrong with Rose is mentally he isn&#8217;t ready to play and they are jumping all over him for it.
As long as it isn&#8217;t malicious, I think it is fair game. Sports Pickle pulled up his GMAIL account and look what they found.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:04:58 -0400</pubDate>
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This could have been so easy.
I would have ruled Derrick Rose out for the entire season at the All-Star break, even if I knew it was a chance that he could come back at any time.
That would have stopped all the questions about his return and if he did by chance come back, he would have been seen as hero. They could have said he had a setback or used any plausible excuse and people would have bought it, because Rose at the time wasn&#8217;t a guy people would question.
Instead they left the carrot dangling and now it has gotten out of control. So when reports come out like this from&#160;&#160;Aggrey Sam of CSN Chicago&#160;people just groan.
Despite erroneous reports that he was set to dress for Game 3, according to a person with knowledge of the situation, the former league MVP won&#8217;t return to the court in the series, something Thibodeau is aware of.
However, at th</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:33:26 -0400</pubDate>
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Charles Oakley is just shaking his head right now.
Nazr Mohammed Shoves LeBron James
FYI, LeBron this is the proper way to sell a stunner.</description>
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      <description>Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng is unlikely to play in Game 3 of his team&#8217;s second-round playoff series against the Miami Heat, but at the very least he seems to finally be getting healthy. Deng has been suffering through a bout with the flu that got so bad he was given a spinal tap to detect spinal meningitis (it came back negative). He has missed the last four games, mostly as a result of complications from the spinal tap. Perhaps more worrisome is the fact that Deng has lost a whopping 15 pounds since the start of his illness and he claims he was &#8220;really scared&#8221; by how his body reacted. The 28-year-old is reportedly still very weak and hasn&#8217;t been able to do much on the court.  The Bulls dropped Game 2 of their series with the Heat 115-78, after getting a 93-86 win in Game 1. Without Deng in the lineup, Jimmy Butler has stepped up and taken on a huge role for Chicago. As of now it looks like the earliest Deng could return would be for Game 4 on Monday, but even that isn&#8217;t a guara...</description>
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