Chicago Bulls break the 8-straight Celtics

[reapershole]

The first year with Big Ben Wallace promised something huge, but no one in Chicago quite knew what that was when the Bulls fell in game seven of the Finals against the Phoenix Suns. The Suns were just clicking and the Coach was still coping with the separation of the dunk and layup buttons.

In 2007 the Bulls drafted Dikembe Zudufu, a combination forward/center, and Andrew Grimm, a combination guard/forward. Over the Summer the Bulls saw the retirement of PJ Brown, but Thomas was ready to step up. They started with a starting line-up of...

Wallace
Thomas
Nocioni
Gordon
Hinrich

By the end of the year the Bulls were running with an injured Ben Gordon so they started guard/forward rookie Andrew Grimm in the playoffs. This turned out to be the core for the bulls for the next four straight championshios...

Wallace
Thomas
Nocioni
Grimm
Hinrich
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Gordon
Deng
Zudufu

In the summer of 2012 Ben Wallace retired. Many predicted the Bulls would not recover, but they managed a multi-player deal which brought in recent Clipper underachiever Chris Kaman. What Kaman had come to lack offensively he made up for defensively and the tandem of Kaman and Thomas up from turned out five more straight Championships. The Bulls also saw Andrew Grimm go from dominent guard scorer similar to Michael Jordan to more of an all around player like Scottie Pippen as age took him from high flying scoring guard to offensive general playing from the point forward position. The next five years the Bulls ran as...

Kaman
Thomas
Grimm
Gordan
Hinrich
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Duhon
Zudufu
Deng
Nocioni

After the final of nine straight Championships, the Bulls saw Nocioni, Kaman, and Grimm all retire together. The Bulls then ran with...

Zudufu
Thomas
Deng
Gordan
Hinrich

It wasn't long until Hinrich retired and Duhon finally got the starting job he lost over ten years before hand, but he soon retired with Deng and Gordan all within a few years. The Bulls failed to make the playoffs for several years. In fact, from 2017 to 2025 the Bulls were unable to put together more than one entrance into the playoffs (2020) and even then they were smashed in the first round within 4 games.

The summer of 2025 the Bulls drafted Augustus Grimm, the first son of retired legend turned Bulls owner Andrew Grimm. No one was very familiar with the new AG game. With his draft also came the shedding of every Bulls player over 28 years old no matter what their skill level. Veterins were traded for rookies, team captains were traded for role players, and Augustus Grimm became the new cornerstone of the franchise next to second year forward Dwight Hamilton and Third year center Amare Harper. That year the Bulls returned to the playoffs for the first time. Within a short time the new look Chicago Bulls were back to the winning ways, although the next Grimm (number 1 instead of number 11 which his father wore) was drawing Jason Kidd and Steve Nash comparisons instead of the Jordan / Pippen comparisons his father lived with. By the time the Dynasty closed for review the Bulls were the winningest franchise in all or sports, one championship above that of the Boston Celtics...

After Andrew Grimm retired I simmed everything until the creation of Augustus Grimm, which, I only played one of those games so... yeah... lots of simming...

[ignatu]

Great job on a long term dynasty.

The Celtics won eight straight, then three more over the next five years to make it a total of 11 championships in 13 years.