Chicago Bulls

Newcomers need game time to jell

Ask any NBA player if he'd prefer practice or a game, and the universal response would rival Allen Iverson's famous and incredulous diatribe.

Bulls fall to Pacers

Maybe the Bulls should go back to dressing only eight players. The sense of urgency and desperation that had defined back-to-back victories since the All-Star break vanished in a flat performance at Conseco Fieldhouse, where the Pacers won 98-91.

Rose yanked in 4th quarter

Derrick Rose is about as controversial as a librarian. So even though his response as to why he thought coach Vinny Del Negro had pulled him twice at abnormal times in Sunday's loss may sound boat-rocking, it isn't.