Five Most Important Games For Chicago Bulls In 2015

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The NBA unveiled the full schedule for every team in the 2015 season last week. The Chicago Bulls will have some key games that may go a long way in determining how well the season will go for them. We will go over five of them.

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The NBA recently released the full schedule for every team in the 2015 season. There are some marquee games to start the season and on some holidays.

The Chicago Bulls will figure in some of those games.

The Bulls did not do much in the offseason but to re-sign its own players, chief among them being Jimmy Butler.

The big move made by the Bulls was to fire coach Tom Thibodeau and hire Fred Hoiberg. The thinking here for the Bulls is that they will go into the season with the same cast of characters that made it to the Eastern Conference semifinals, but the coaching change will prove that John Paxson and Gar Forman were right in their fight over philosophical differences with Thibodeau.

Perhaps another reason is that after the season the NBA’s new television contract will kick in, the salary cap will explode, there will be a lot of top free agents, and all hell will break loose.

Joakim Noah will be one of those free agents, and I do not believe the Bulls will spend more money on him. Also, Taj Gibson will be owed almost $9 million, and he may perhaps be moved.

So what we have here is a team that will try to make their last stand in Chicago. They will go all in and buy into Hoiberg’s plan. Let’s see if Hoiberg is up to the challenge.

In the meantime, here are five key games the Bulls will face in 2015.

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