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When the third-year guard hosted a block party and basketball clinic for 120 youth at the intersection of one of the most violent blocks in the city’s Little Village neighborhood Saturday, he did so not because of who employs him. But rather because his heart will never leave his hometown. “No matter if I re-signed with the Bulls or not, me being from Chicago my main focus was still the same,” Dosunmu said. “I still was going to always try to give back to my city. This is the city that raised me. This is the city that made me. But of course, re-signing back with the Bulls now, it gives me more flexibility to be more on-hand.”
KC Johnson: Huge ovations for Carlos Boozer, Luol Deng and Ben Gordon introduced during this timeout. United Center is loud tonight.
In 16 games since returning to the starting lineup, White has averaged 16 points, four rebounds and six assists. He’s turned the ball over only twice per game over that span while averaging 33 minutes. Donovan noted how much Vučević and a slower pace have helped. “For a young point guard like Coby, sometimes the faster the game gets going up and down the floor, there’s a lot quicker decisions you have to make,” Donovan said. “And certainly our pace and tempo are not what it was earlier in the year. And he doesn’t necessarily have to rely on Vooch to create. He can allow Vooch to kind of create for him and Vooch creates either a lot of jump shots or a lot of closeouts for him. … I think those two guys have really helped each other quite a bit.”
Vince Carter, who coaches the Chicago Demons, a youth traveling team that Edward Bryant played for, told me that the Bryant twins were standing on a corner not far from Wrigley Field around 3:15 a.m. (The Cubs had lost a World Series game that night.) Although the hour was late, the neighborhood was relatively safe. They were gunned down in a drive-by shooting. The killers have not been apprehended, and no one has any idea what the motive might be — if there even is a motive.
Eleven years earlier, Shawn Harrington’s mother had been killed when she mistakenly walked into a house that was being robbed. “That was a rough patch,” he recalled. “I donated mom’s organs, which helped three people. God was preparing me for this.” By “this,” Harrington was referring to his own shooting. One of his daily rituals was driving his daughter, Naja, to high school. Early one morning in late January in 2014, with Harrington’s car in a repair shop, they set out together in a rented white sedan. At the corner of Augusta Boulevard and Hamlin Avenue, in the West Side neighborhood of Humboldt Park, a shooting had just taken place involving a white sedan. When Harrington and Naja drove into that same intersection, the men who had been shooting at the other white sedan opened fire, thinking it was the same car.
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Friedell: From the first time we talked, you always talked about how much you loved Chicago and how you wanted the player to bring a title back to the city. Has your love for the city and wanting to be that guy changed at all over all this time? Rose: Never. Never. I can't get mad about people's opinions, I always say that. That's their opinion. They got every right to say or think whatever they want to say and think. And whatever they say and think don't affect my life. I don't live in that world where I'm on social media, I don't got social media. Or I'm reading articles [about my game], so it's like I hear stuff by word of mouth a couple of days after so it never gets to me. So I can't get mad about what they say.
Be Creative is "a $38 million private fundraising initiative, built on the fundamental principle that the arts are essential to education." Since they both have a background in the arts and understand the importance of arts education, Noah and his mother decided to join Be Creative as honory chairs. "I've experienced firsthand the impact activities like sports and arts can have – how an emphasis on arts education can encourage kids to gain confidence, think outside of the box and embrace creativity," said Noah in a release. "We are fortunate that initiatives like Be Creative exist to make sure students aren't left out of these experiences."
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Steve Kyler: Sources close to Emmanuel Mudiay say that he may attend the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago next week... still up in the air.
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