If the Miami Heat were “Hollywood as hell,” the 2010-11 Bulls were Chicago as hell.
“As hard as any team that we ever played,” Heat legend and longtime nemesis Dwyane Wade said.
“You knew every time you stepped on the floor against those guys they were going to be a physical matchup, an old-school Eastern Conference game,” Heat forward Udonis Haslem said. “And you probably were going to need a couple of bags of ice after the game.”
A couple bags of ice. The Bulls were giving those out all season, along with the Ls they were dishing out almost every game.
The Bulls won 62 games that season. It was the peak of the post-Jordan Bulls. It was the team that every Bulls squad will be measured against until one makes it back to the NBA Finals.
Those Bulls captured hearts across Chicago and surprised the rest of the league with hard-nosed play ushered in by their maniacal first-year coach Tom Thibodeau. They junked up games…
