Winning an NBA title is not as easy as, say, playing a board game, but part of the magic of the Bulls is they make it appear so. Roll the dice, move a game piece, Suit up, win another game.
The Bulls tied the NBA’s second-best regular-season record with 69 wins – a feat once deemed unattainable – then blasted through the playoffs to win their fifth NBA world championship in seven years.
A two-year hiatus when Houston hoisted banners can be blamed, at least in part, on another hiatus – Michael Jordan’s baseball experiment. But every Bulls team Jordan has played on during the 1990s has produced a world championship. A title monopoly, if you will.
Here, then, with apologies to Monopoly creator Charles Darrow, is a look at the Bulls’ 1996-97 season.
