Welcome to Outside Shot

" Welcome to Outside Shot, NBC Chicago’s new sports blog covering the Chicago Bulls.

The Bulls have a rich basketball history in this city and after six NBA Championships and bragging rights to Michael Jordan, there were a lot of lean years that made it difficult at times to claim Bulls fandom.

It’s not easy going from a storied dynasty to a squad that couldn’t win 20 games over three seasons and missed the playoffs for six consecutive years.

Despite that futility, things slowly started to turn around in Chicago, and the basketball gods – obviously feeling that we’d suffered long enough – gave us a new reason to brag when the Bulls were granted the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NBA Draft despite a 1.7 percent chance of claiming the ultimate prize: the right to draft Derrick Rose "

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