At 23-7, the Bulls are currently on pace to match last season’s feat of earning the number one seed in the Eastern Conference. As we approach next weekend’s All-Star break, it makes sense to look at the Bulls from a big picture perspective. more ›

Demand for the retro Air Jordan sneakers surpassed expectations, as shoppers gathered in Black Friday-esque swarms to get their hands on the special release of Michael Jordan's legendary shoes. more ›

You'll find that this site is also an online guide to MJ's proclivities for booze-and smoke-filled late nights chasing young tail. Michael Jordan is clearly enjoying the fruits of his labors, one bad pair of Sean John jeans at a time. more ›

Did you know Chicago is home to the world's most alkaline-resistant lifeform? The Guinness Book of World Records did. more ›

Patrick Lee grew up a fan of Jordan and the Bulls. He also produces videos as a hobby and an update of MJ's classic "It's Not About the Shoes" Nike ad with Jordan's voiceover set to clips of D-Rose on the court, in the gym and making personal appearances. more ›

Forbes estimates that His Airness brings in $60 million in endorsements annually, more than what he made when he was a player. more ›

7931 Lincoln Avenue, Skokie. more ›

Two - Walter Payton and Michael Jordan - are locks. Who will join them? more ›

Good news: Michael Jordan can still play basketball better than you. more ›

We've opined about Michael Jordan's abilities as a marketing pitchman before. Basketball's GOAT has a Midas Touch when it comes to shilling. more ›

Until LeBron has hoisted six Larry O'Brien trophies, there is no discussion on who is the greatest. more ›

One of the greatest highlight reel moments of Michael Jordan's career happened 19 years ago today. more ›

So was what Scottie Pippen said about LeBron James last week blasphemy? Or the truth? more ›

While the city starts to embrace the Bulls and their return to prominence in a way we haven't seen since the end of the Jordan Era, a quarter century ago today Michael Jordan set a playoff scoring record 63 points against the Boston Celtics that still stands. Jordan only played 18 games during the 1985-86 season and team officials advised he sit out the season to give him some extra recuperation time. Jordan refused and led the Bulls to the final playoff spot, drawing the eventual champion Celtics in the first round. Although Boston swept the Bulls in the series, Jordan was an unstoppable one-man wrecking crew more ›

It seems rightfully so that the Bulls would climb into the No. 1 spot in the Eastern Conference tying Boston on a night celebrating the 20th anniversary of the franchise's first championship. With Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and other '91 champs watching, Derrick Rose, and the Bulls showed their elders that it's their turn to make some franchise history as they beat the Utah Jazz 118-100 Saturday night. more ›

Add Michael Jordan to the growing list of current and former players proclaiming Derrick Rose NBA MVP. Jordan made his proclamation after the Bulls' 101-84 win over his Charlotte Bobcats. As for Rose, he had a workmanlike game with 20 points and six assists, but he hit four of his six three-point shots. The Bulls showed off their bench depth last night. Kyle Korver matched Rose with 20 points of his own, while Taj Gibson added 14 and Ronnie Brewer 10. Gibson might be back in a starting role, depending on the severity of Carlos Boozer's sprained ankle. Boozer was fouled hard going to the basket by the Bobcats' Kwame Brown last night, left the game and didn't return. more ›

With the ghosts of Bulls past observing the game at courtside in Scottie Pippen and Bobcats owner Michael Jordan, the Bulls used tough defense, good bench production and the slashing game of Luol Deng to beat Charlotte 106-94. But the Bobcats showed last night that they're a team on the rise and that their two previous wins over the Bulls weren't flukes. more ›

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It may not have been the flu game, but Bulls' star point guard Derrick Rose has definitely shown some similarities of Bulls' great Michael Jordan, battling through two ulcers vs. the Magic. more ›

The NBA announced its fan selections for the upcoming All-Star Game on Thursday night. For the first time since Michael Jordan retired, the the Bulls have a player in the starting line-up. Derrick Rose was voted to start for the Eastern Conference team in the Feb. 20 game. Rose will team up with Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard, LeBron James and Amare Stoudemire. more ›

Let's all channel our inner grandfather and take a look at the still-functioning website for Space Jam. It's still as it was in 1996, when AOL, Geocities and 28.8 dial-up was king. We're still trying to see if the site accepts Prodigy keywords, though. more ›

With his endorsements, his appearance in the NBA 2K11 video game and the continued frenzy (and sometimes homicides) over his shoes, Michael Jordan as an international brand is as hot as ever. Earlier this week, Deadspin excerpted a chapter from the Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, from the writers behind the wonderful basketball website Free Darko. The chapter, from Bethlehem Shoals, dealt with a young Michael Jordan, just launching his professional career, and how Jordan was considered rebellious, even edgy, at the time. more ›

In 1993, Michael Jordan stunned the world when he walked away from basketball at the height of his popularity. He had just won his third straight title with the Bulls and was the most famous person on earth following the Dream Team's triumphant gold medal run at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Even more stunning was his retirement endeavor. MJ gave up the charter planes and ritzy hotels of the NBA lifestyle for the long bus rides and small town accommodations known all too well to minor league baseball players. Jordan joined the Birmingham Barons, the White Sox Double A minor league affiliate, to give his baseball dreams a go. In his one season, Jordan appeared in 127 games and batted .202 with 3 home runs, 51 RBIs and 30 stolen bases in 436 at-bats -- not exactly major league material. more ›

When Michael Jordan's father James was found to have been shot to death in North Carolina in 1993, Chicago was shocked. That one act so shattered Michael that he left the sport he loved and turned to another interest, baseball, because his father always envisioned him in the MLB. When he did return, he wore number 45 instead of 23 because he wanted his final game while wearing that number to have been the NBA Finals victory, the last game his father saw him play. The famous scene of MJ curled up on the court clutching the basketball after the Bulls defeating the Sonics in the 1996 NBA Finals took place because that win came on Father's Day. more ›

On Friday night, former Bulls greats Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen will team up one more time. Pippen announced on Monday that when he's enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame this Friday night as part of the Class of 2010, it'll be former teammate MJ who presents him to the Hall. more ›

• Fallen Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey, the third officer killed in two months, was laid to rest today.
• Plans for the city's third Wal-Mart are moving along quickly.
• President Obama is throwing a fundraiser for his birthday right here in Chicago in early August but tickets are $30,000 a pop, which is just slightly more than you'll spend getting into Lollapalooza.

Michael Jordan gave us a reminder of that ever-burning fire of competitive spirit this weekend when he sounded off on Lebron's decision to take his talents to South Beach. After a celebrity golf tournament broadcast on NBC, Jordan (thankfully devoid of the recent questionable 'stache) sat down to answer some questions. After talking about the evolution of the game's finances, wondering if it'd be different if his generation could play against the Kobe Bryants and Tim Duncans of today, he finally offered up this nugget of perspective on that whole Lebron James situation that you might have heard something about. more ›

Michael Jordan's sons will be reunited on the basketball court for the first time since their days at Loyola Academy. Jordan's older son Jeff, a reserve player for the Illinois Fighting Illini and former walk-on, announced he's transferring to the University of Central Florida, where younger brother Marcus recently finished his freshman season. more ›

Via CINE-FILE contributor Michael Castelle, we learn of a mind-bending paper written by former Chicago gay rights activist and linguistics professor Michal Brody. She argues that the Michael Jordan/Bugs Bunny flick Space Jam contains several uncanny parallels to the Popol Vuh, the sacred Mayan text detailing the ancient people's creation account. (The earliest surviving copy of this manuscript is actually in the collection of the Newberry Library.) more ›

There's a new ad campaign for Hanes featuring former Bulls legend Michael Jordan. But it's not the product that has folks talking; rather, it's Jordan's curious facial hair, which most are referring to as Jordan's "Hitler mustache." While there seems to be no official word on why Jordan has chosen to go with the short 'stache, some, such as SB Nation's brilliant Spencer Hall (no, really, he's one of the best sports bloggers out there), has hypothesized a few possibilities: more ›