Sam Smith

In my desire to help all 30 teams with trade ideas, I've developed a core of volunteer assistants and sometimes an interesting suggestion comes along. An e-mailer who's had some...

Larry Bird never coached before he led the Indiana Pacers to the NBA Finals. Pat Riley was briefly a Lakers assistant but primarily a broadcaster before becoming one of the...

And then they were 9-17. And so went the continuation of this discouraging Bulls season here Wednesday night in a 94-79 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Been there. Seen...

Is it John Paxson as Winston Churchill this week? It was Churchill in the run-up to World War II who concluded the behavior of Russia was "a riddle, wrapped in...

Well, that didn't work. The Bulls brought a new coach and some new defensive wrinkles here Wednesday night to challenge the San Antonio Spurs. Unfortunately, there was too much of...

You figure Bulls coach-for-perhaps-just-a-game Pete Myers was up early Wednesday shopping before the Bulls were to meet the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. Not necessarily for post-Christmas bargains, but likely...

My favorite story Chet Walker. I've long felt Walker was the least-appreciated great player in NBA history, certainly Bulls history. I'd talked to him casually about all the money in...

I once wrote that Scott Skiles was Larry Brown Lite. I meant it as a compliment. You hire Skiles as a coach and you get better, like with Brown. He's...

Merry Christmas, Scott Skiles. By the way, you're fired. That was the stunningly mixed message the Bulls coach received just before 10 a.m. Monday as his team was about to...