How the Greatest NBA Franchise Became the Worst (Chicago Bulls) 

As a basketball fan, it sucks we never got to see the DeBallZach experiment in full force. Especially with Caruso, they had a lot of potential for at least a solid playoff run.

Trading Jimmy is when they gave up

As a bulls fan im going through the five stages of grief every game

Man this video is so sad. You cant hate D Rose man, so sad never seeing him Ball out Long term😢

As long as the Reinsdorfs own the Bulls they are happy enough being a very profitable franchise and will not care about winning

D Rose abused his body, and the worst part is that nobody in the franchise cared enough to protect him.

Being a Bulls fan is depressing. At the same time I don’t think I could ever choose another franchise to root for. I have decades of history with this franchise.

The fall off was so hard, it’s insane

As someone who is living in Chicago and watches them from time to time WE SUCK

Nah posting this on the day of the first Bulls game of the season is out of pocket 🤣🤣

Before I watch Im gonna add my theory to this discussion. I grew up outside of Chicago and through my Uncle I started watching the NBA in the 84-85 season, the year before MJ showed up. My Uncle was stoked when the Bulls drafted MJ and couldnt stop telling me about it. I was going on 9 years old and had never seen him play but I took his word for it and to say he was right would be THE understatement. I followed the NBA like a fiend until the 1999 season for what should be obvious reasons. I say all of this to say the Bulls ever since then have been cursed. NEVER again shall they have sustained success. You run MJ, Scottie, Dennis, AND Phil out of Chicago for the sake of one individuals ego over the organization and you are forever cursed! I couldnt stand watching those Lakers teams that won 3 in a row because they just literally drank the Bulls formula with that same Bulls coaching staff and even a few of the same players. So in short Jerry Krause and Jerry Reinsdorf forever cursed this franchise. D-Rose paid the price too for this same curse. Thibs career too. Even now with Lonzo. It all goes back to Krause and Reinsdorf.

Somewhere, there’s an alternate universe where a statue of Derrick Rose is built next to the statue of MJ due to D-Rose being the one who bough the Bulls back to being the legendary championship organization that they used to be in the 90s.

I'm not even bulls fan and this hurts 😭 (thanks Dylan great vid 😘)

It's honestly sad watching John Paxson's fall from grace. I remember watching live when he hit the championship winning 3-point shot against Phoenix.

as a bulls fan, we had to trade jimmy. we were not winning with him and we did not have the pieces to win around him. he’s always been amazing but with how incompotent our franchise is we were making him worse.

that rookie Drose rookie season was memorable plus that series with the Celtics was legendary

One of the saddest things about the Bulls in the 2000s is we've been consistently one of the best drafting teams. Look at our past picks and how many of them ended up being stars/good role players... just unfortunately not for the bulls usually. We just cant progress anyone

The Championship Bulls of the 1990s. The Baby Bulls of 2004, the (pre-ACL) Derrick Rose era (2009-2012) and the brief Nate Robinson era (2012 I think) were moments where I was at my most happiest. The Reinsdorfs need to sell the team.

As both a Bulls and White Sox fan, it hurts to watch both of the teams owned by Reinsdorf suck year after year with a slight glimmer of playoff contention once in a while.

rose was supposed to save Chicago its like the bulls made a deal with the devil for the jordan chips

As a Chicagoan and general sports fan: sports suck, man. We catch no breaks out here. Especially in basketball.

A part of me died in 2012 with the Rose injury. Basketball has never been the same for me.

If the bulls had better training staff that could have helped prevent some of these injuries through better recovery along with the coaches not overplaying players they would probably have a ring or two.

Iowa State fan here, Fred Hoiberg fall off was insane. Man went from back to back Big 12 championships in a very promising career as a college basketball coach. To being a central character in one of of the biggest collapses in NBA history. Just like with Derrick Rose and his injuries, the what if of Fred Hoiberg staying at Iowa State instead of going to the Bulls will be one of the biggest what ifs of all of college basketball. He now manages a very bad Nebraska program which can’t even make it past 11th place.

As a bulls fan I had nightmares of this day 😭

Welcome back man, glad you’re back with great vids 🙏

This is super unrelated to the actual video. But thankyou for linking the music you used, been looking for that outro song for a solid few years💚

Great video! The Bulls as an organization have been clinging onto the Jordan era. Fans need to start speaking with their wallets. This franchise was ALL IN on coach Billy Donovan when clearly he hasn’t been as advertised. This team needs a new direction and a new roster set up. No shot blocking. Not enough bench scoring. Terrible coaching and substitution patterns and too many draft pick misses! Too many gambles in the draft.

being a chicago born and raised kid D rose was and will always be my favorite player i believe they have to be cursed in someway with the amount of unluck we have from being so great in the 90’s to the 2008 draft giving us hope the bulls always have been a team that could put teams together but the on and off management to injuries to teams just not reaching their potential it is depressing being a bulls fan but it’s always fun to watch we just need to make the right moves and have a little bit of luck and we can be right back on track

Lonzo was the key piece to the current bulls roster, feels like he’s the new rose

Disappointing you never fully talked about Jerry reindorf

I’ll never forget telling my Celtics fan friend in 2017 that the sweep was coming when we were up 2-0. If Rondo never got injured i think we could’ve gotten that series

As a bulls fan, this cuts deep. We’ve been riding the carousel of mediocrity for awhile. That’s what happens when you sign and overpay three all stars that can’t play d

Your editing and storytelling is top tier

Anyone else realize how the video quality went from 10/10 to 11/10

i really wish you would post more i love these

The "get younger and athletic" quote after drafting a completely unathletic upperclassman wing Denzel Valentine really does sum up the GarPax era

CRazy how the Bulls had the second coming in Jordan in Butler and were too blind to see his work ethic and his winner's mentality

I felt Roses knee tear. That was the end. We hoped everything would go back to how it was pre injury Rose, but we all know what happened.

Music choices are very interesting as always. I wasn’t expecting Malo Mart, the Valve intro or half this stuff lol TEAM FORTRESS 2 BABYYYEEEEEE

litterly just finished his raptors video then i see this, so hype!

Keep making great content Dylan!

Great video,perfect breakdown of recent bulls history, would of nice to include baby bull era since it was a short bright spot post jordan pre rose lol

dylan’s editing gets better and better each video 🔥🔥

chicago's franchise since the 2000s has just been stars being injured

You should do one on how Seattle SuperSonics went from nba finals to relocated that would be something good to tackle

Great video dude. It’s about time someone spoke on the Bulls. As a supporter since the Rose glory days it’s just been disaster after disaster sometimes to an incredible degree that you think yeah we might’ve genuinely sold our souls for the Jordan era. Recently the tide has turned a bit on AK and ME too but the aggressiveness they showed in bringing Vooch as soon as they got hired showed they know what they’re doing. It’s depressing but imma continue supporting.

It pains us.....you'll always be our MVP D.Rose 🌹

As a bulls fan it hurts but i knew i had to watch this video😭😭 we just needa to blow it up and develop and build around our young guys ayo, pat and coby white or try nd get value out of the 3

As a new England patriots fan i really hope we dont become like the bulls

Im glad you talked about that Blatt timeout, no one ever talks about that. That drove me up the wall

Great day when you upload!

The problem is we keep getting bad coaches like Hoiberg, Clown Dude, and Donovan. Our ownership sucks and they just want the Bulls to be winning enough so that they can sell tickets, but not really win a championship. And our players keep playing iso and three-point shooting offense that never gets anywhere. No team basketball whatsoever, and people wonder why we keep losing.......

no lie this is how it feels like being a broncos fan. sold the entire future for that 2016 ring. now it just feels like purgatory

Being a Bulls fan is truly pain. The incompetence of the front office you can give or take. But the absolute bad luck and injuries when things seem to be going well has truly been disheartening these passed 2 decades. One thing that still stands since 1998 is the owner Jerry. Bro is having the same issues in whole different sport with the White Sox. The Bulls can only climb back up when Jerry Riensdorf is no longer the owner.

Tibs destroying players' health through the years is not nearly talked about as it should

As a Chicago sports fan this is par for the course, they provide hope for a bit just to rip that hope right out of your heart in the worst way possible.

I tell you, for once after a longggg time, that healthy bulls team with Lonzo, Lavine, derozan and Caruso was very fun to watch

Dylan why i wasn't looking to cry today 😢😢😢 but i was hoping for a bulls video

7:20 this man really did use a Valve sound effect haha! nice video btw

As a Timberwolves fan I can confidently say that the Bulls aren't the worst franchise. :')

really sad cus i remember having so much hope with DeZachBall😞

I’ve been waiting for you to upload I know you won’t disappoint all your vids are high quality

Quality content. 💯

Drafting Coby White “turned out to be a dud”??? Bro must be mental, Coby has been the only bright spot for the Bulls this whole year

Can you do Rockets downfall from their 95 championship to present day?

Amazing video man

I knew who Fred was because I watch Rondo but I never realized why the front office was so horrible when they were there and it seems like they were working against them. But in your video you were saying that they're looking for a reason to fire. Jimmy Butler which makes sense

It sucks to be a bulls fan😭 worst part of it is that the owner doesn’t care, we are still running it again with a core that is a play-in team at best, bad coaching and where the only guys that plays defense is Caruso. Hope they go in full rebuild mode so at least we can get a good pick, but knowing this franchise, they will screw everything again🤦🏽‍♂️

Management detonated that amazing team to prove their managerial prowess. What a spectacular dumpster fire. Only goes to show how good Phil and Jordan were.

Rondo going down with the hand injury was the end of that year. He was playing great. They had the celtics on the ropes and were ready for the ko punch.

It's time to address the real problem of the Chicago Bulls -- Jerry Reinsdorf. The Bulls might, in fact, be a pretty good team if we didn't have massive injuries to Ball, Lavine, P-Will, Craig. But the fact is they are injured. When Lonzo went down for two years we should have immediately gone after a quality rental that was available (like Westbrook or Brunson or Chris Paul or Kyrie, etc) until we could reevaluate him or moved on.. We were down a super important player, but we did nothing to replace him. This season, when Zach went down for an extended period we should have started looking around for a quality replacement. When Craig went down the first time we should have immediately got a quality replacement. We were already super thin around the basket and undersized. When Zach went down a second time and was out for the season, a sense of urgency to find a replacement should have propelled acquisition of someone to replace his skill set. That same sense of urgency should have happened when P-Will went out for an extend period of time and increased to DefCon 5 when Craig went down a second time. We have a power forward problem we did not address over the summer. Craig was a great acquisition, but not enough. What I am trying to say is that 4 of our 8 best guys (Ball, Zach, Craig, P-Will) are out and we have done nothing to replace them. Nor did we really replace DJJ or Jevonte Green (who we could really use right now as we are that thin at forward). We also let Pat Bev go and got Jevon Carter instead, even though Pat Bev resurrected our season last year. Why did we let him go? He asked for two much money and once he figured out what was going on around here would have called the culprits out. Jerry operates in secrecy (secretly extending Billy is an example of that -- do you really think it was Arturas and Marc's idea to extend an unpopular coach in a furtive, unsavory, sneaky manner that they must have know would reflect back on them? I am guessing Jerry ordered them to do it that way) In the midst of all this we resigned Vuch, White and Ayo. All the while remaining under the salary cap and not even using our Ball long-term injury exception. Now what does all this mean? A lot of people have blamed the players. A lot of people have blamed Arturas and Eversely. Certainly they bear some responsibility. But the players are who they are. Everyone knew that. They give the best ofwhat skills they have, and as a player it must be pretty crushing to lose all those key pieces to injury and receive no reinforcements for them. The players are playing with heavy hearts and high anxiety. We might not have been able to win even with Ball, Zach, Craig, P-Will. But we certainly cannot win without them, and -- more importantly -- when no replacements are forthcoming. The Bulls organization claim they want to win now, but clearly they don't care that much about it, as proven by the fact that no reinforcements were forthcoming. Now we are all quick to blame Arturas and Eversley. But what if their hands were tied? What if Jerry said, "look you got Vuch, Ayo and White back, and Craig and Jevon in free agency. That's it, were done, we aren't going over the cap." Maybe they were forced to re-sign those 3 guys because Jerry was not interested in going out and testing the market, simply because they are a proven commodity that are just good enough for what Jerry has in mind. Now what does Jerry have in mind? Simply to make money. He doesn't give a shit about the Bulls (or the Sox). He just wants the cash. And he figures the team he has is enough to keep the fans hopeful and interested and fill up the seats and the advertisement and merchandise revenue flowing. The Bulls brand is still one of the most valuable in all of sports. Jerry is still profiting off Michael. Just look at Bulls Central and the rest of us on here: we have remained interested and watching the games all season. The Bulls are (for now) in the play in. Jerry knows the Bulls getting in the play in is enough to fill up seats and continue to bring in his advertising revenues. He is not willing to pay for the Superstars every team needs to get The Chip. And never has been since the Dynasty Era (Jerry Krause is underrated -- though his arrogance doomed us in the end, no other GM has been able to get any significant teams built under Reinsdorf). He is not willing to go over the salary cap for those great guys we need because that eats into his profits. Maybe when Vuch, Caruso and DeRozan were brought in, and we finally got a somewhat decent coach, he felt that was enough to keep the seats full. Maybe Arturas and Eversley were tricked into thinking those acquisitions were just the beginning, when in fact that was all Jerry was good for the whole time. Resigning guys like Zach, Ayo, White and and probably P-Will are Jerry's insurance that he will have a few decent guys to start with when Vuch, Caruso and DeRozan are gone. It can't be that Gar-Pax and now Arturas-Eversley are both guilty of the same kinds of issues: hiring shitty coaches, not acquiring proven players, poorly fitting personnel, stagnation, etc. Jerry hung on to the previous two coaches like he is hanging on to Billy. Why? Maybe the price is right, and they are at least a superficially acceptable group of coaches. Maybe Billy wants better assistants but Jerry refuses to pay for them. And Jerry knows this is not going to come out because it goes against NBA protocols of keeping everything in house. That and Jerry dangles firing them over their heads. For too long under too many administrations and too many changes in players, the Bulls have been mediocre. It has to be the system Jerry has put in place. Look what happened with Thibs. Thibs is one of the best coaches in the NBA, but as soon as he demanded accountability from Jerry he was gone. The two Jerry's were even willing to fire MJ, Phil and Scottie to maintain their total control. I felt so sorry for the guys at the end of today's Boston loss. You could see on their faces and with their body language that they feel despondent and hopeless. All Jerry cares about is the money. And as long as the Bulls are just good enough to keep the rabid fanbase interested the money is going to keep coming in at almost the same amount as if we were actually contenders, so there is no need for Jerry to move the needle. In fact it goes against his profit margin. There are two solutions to this problem: one is temporary, the other permanent. Either we boycott the games and merchandise until something changes dramatically within the organisation and we get some winning teams out there with a chance at the Finals, or Jerry gets bought out. If we boycott maybe he makes some moves and we are good for awhile, then he pulls the same shit (I know Riensdorf is old, but his sons seem cut from the same cheap, deceitful cloth). So, we need a billionaire to make him an offer he can't refuse. And in the meantime we boycott. I have been blaming the players, the coaches, the front office, but tonight I actually felt sorry for them. These are a great bunch of guys and really good basketball players, some of whom should be moved to the second team as soon as a couple genuinely Superstar players are moved in to take the reins. I don't want to see these guys go, I just want them playing behind a couple true, consistent, clutch Superstars. Deep teams win championships. Do you really want to run DeRozan out of town? He is playing the most minutes in the NBA this year, Vuch is playing the most of his career, Caruso is giving it his all, White is 100% committed on every play. I like these guys, but they need some better players they can compliment. And maybe Billy needs some better assistants. We could definitely use some better assistant coaches if Billy has to stay. I have grown to like Billy, but the obvious solution to our coaching woes is Budenholzer. However, the Bulls will never get anywhere without a new owner, or an owner that is scared of the power of his fanbase and knows he has to deliver. It's not the players fault, the team is under staffed even when healthy, and we have lost key guys to injury with no attempt to bridge their loss. I would like to see DeRozan resigned and end his career as a Bull. After all I have said it is not just about winning, but legacy. Seeing DeRozan's jersey in the rafters after another three years here would add to the Bulls legend and he would have put his imprint on countless younger guys coming up. We don't win by subtraction but addition. The Lakers are never rebuilding, the Celtics are never rebuilding. Neither is Miami. Can we really withstand more decades of rebuilding unsuccessfully? We are down on the coach and the players, but they can only work with what the front office gives them, and the front office can only do what Jerry approves. Jerry has got to go or at least be shaken to the core by our wrath. Nothing will change until this is accomplished. Same goes for the Sox and Bears -- these owners are predators preying on the fans, the players, the coaches, the front-office and the city of Chicago. The Windy City deserves better and we have the power to make it happen. Fuck Jerry. Go Bulls!

The bulls medical staff needs to be investigated for how many players careers suffer from injuries, it’s too many for a coincidence

Losing Ball really put a damper on this current Bulls. Before his injury they were balling and were #1 in the East. Similar to Rose and the early 2010s Bulls.

I've been watching this channel since before 20k subs and can't wait to see this young man hit 200k what an under the radar channel if you don't fumble this bag you will 100 percent hit 1 million in the next year or 2

22:55 I miss seeing De Ball Zach play :(

I'm a Chicago Bulls Fan Michael Jordan was Greatest Of All Time Helping the Bulls Win 6th NBA Championship Jordan was Special for the Bulls in the 1990s.

To be fair, I think almost every NBA franchises would sell their soul for Michael Jordan and 6 Championships (all of them but the Lakers/Celtics/Warriors)...but yeah, it is still very painful watching this current team.

Nice vid, your style reminds me of Emplemon

16:01 That "what's is his plan ?" Graphic was taken from a New Rockstars thumbnail lol

So much blame to go around. Jerry Reinsdorf is low key one of the worst owners in sports. Making Scottie Pippen play out that atrocious contract got the Bulls black listed by agents which haunts them to this day. For an atrocity of more recent vintage we need look no further than the Vucevic trade. I hated this move with a passion the second it happened. Adding Vuc hard capped their ceiling at 50 wins which they failed to even realize. This is the kind of move that plays in Sacramento where a cute, scrappy underdog story is among the better outcomes. This is Chicago however and a cute scrappy team is not an acceptable goal for a big market team with elite pedigree. Worse yet two young players they totally failed to develop, Markkanen and Wendell Carter have thrived with their new teams. Patrick Williams who is the epitome of mediocrity wants 200 million and Coby White can't guard his house with a shotgun. Finally screw Jimmy Butler! He's a big mouth phony who never delivered in the playoffs as a Bull. His whole "I'm the hardest worker who's too really real" schtick was incredibly annoying. The reality is they need to tear this roster down to the screws and start over. Obviously this guarantees nothing but the current 30 to 35 win trajectory guarantees misery in perpetuity. Did I mention screw Jimmy Butler?

Sad to see my home team fall so hard

Youre editing is god tier

This is the longest bathroom break I've ever taken at work

THE GOAT IS BACK!!!🔥

Bulls front office is just the most incompetent in the NBA.

im probably considered a fair weather fan though at this point im so detached from the nba out of basically pure spite from what garpax did to the team. i started watching the bulls the season before Rose was drafted as i figured i needed something to watch that wasn't just the dallas cowboys and stumbled into my studio apartment hung over when i was 18 saw the bucks and bulls playing and literally just flipped a mental coin on who i would obsessively follow like i did the cowboys. Rose was a phenom and it really helped that 3/4s of their games were national games since you could catch them WGN-TV. every game he had 2-3 plays that you could only really see what he did when they played it in slow motion. having a team that was known for defense had an ULTRA humble super star in rose (who never flopped.... ever) and overall just a super likeable cast of supporting players in deng/joakim/taj and the nose grinder thibs directing the show. what a great time to be a fan. also in that conference finals every game was decided by 1-2 points (except for the one the bulls one i think)... not to mention the amount of fouls that the heat got called in their favor compared to the bulls was and still is insane to me.. though that typified Rose's career. that is not getting fouls called for him cause he didn't sell and dramatize every contact (real or imagined) when he went into the paint compared to those prima donnas. if the bulls had a tenth of those calls go in their favor they win the conference. also a shout out to stacy king.. he is the most goated up announcer ever.

As a bulls fan thanks dylan

The Bulls messed up when they allowed Ben Gordon walk. He would have helped against the Heat.Then trading Jimmy sealed their fate.

Ayyy bro why the outro track changed ?

I LIVED THROUGH THE FRED HOIBERG-JIM BOYLEN ERA AND LET ME TELL YOU IT WAS A DARK TIME

With DeMar being our main scorer y’all have to realize that zo wasn’t the only reason why we went #1 We also had DeMar averaging 30 points a game which definitely helped we also had Alex Caruso who is a fuckin unit on defense those 3 were the biggest pieces and it really helped our franchise injuries just got too us and it’s sucks But I’m happy that lonzo can make a return soon at least that’s what he’s saying

As a Bulls fan..😪 lmfao the Jim Boylen days were… interesting

They could've at least gave them one more chance to defend their crown in 1999 and if they eventually lose to San Antonio, then im okay with that since the core is getting older and then they can do their rebuilding phase afterwards.

Thank you for this🙏🏼

calling Coby White a bust ain't it. MIP season incoming

Title comes from a world where Minnesota, New Orleans and Charlotte don’t have Teams

TLDNW as a Chicago native this entire video can be broken down in 1 word. REINSDORF

Could you do a video about the Seattle Supersonics?

21:15 was hilarious. Why did they think this was a good idea 😂😂😂