this is the only NBA franchise to have
won more than 70 games in a single
season welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be continuing our series of
the most successful sports franchises
with a look at the Chicago Bulls founded
in 1966 the Chicago Bulls are the third
National Basketball Association
franchise to play in the Windy City
today they play in the Central Division
of the Eastern Conference beginning play
in time for the 1966-67 season the Bulls
posted the best record by an expansion
team in NBA history and advanced to the
playoffs in their inaugural year after
playing their season at the
international amphitheater the club
moved to Chicago Stadium before finally
moving to the United Center in 1994
despite their initial success the club
floundered from the 1970s to the early
1980s in fact the simple toss of a coin
at the 1979 NBA Draft could have forever
changed their fate general manager Rod
Thorn called heads in that toss and that
got the Bulls the second choice with
that they drafted David Greenwood after
Magic Johnson went first Johnson went on
to lead the LA Lakers to a successful
1980s decade green wits career lasted 12
unspectacular years and he bounced from
team to team the Bulls learn from their
mistakes and by 1984 they capitalized on
their third pick the Chicago Bulls pick
Michael Jordan
North Carolina the Houston Rockets
selected Hakeem Olajuwon first overall
and the Portland Trailblazers drafted
Sam Bowie second the Bulls then pounced
on University of North Carolina’s
shooting guard Michael Jordan
immediately new owner Jerry Reinsdorf
and general manager Jerry Krause began
to build a team around this young player
Jordan was successful from the get-go
but it wasn’t until the Bulls drafted
traded and signed a strong supporting
cast that the team really took off this
dynasty’s record includes six
championships in eight years including
two three piece however in between those
three Pete’s came a shock mere months
after his father was murdered Michael
Jordan stunned the league and fans alike
when he announced he would be retiring
with Jordan gone teammates Scottie
Pippen affirmed himself as one of the
best players in the game after the team
left the madhouse on Madison for the
United Center in time for the 94-95
season they got the best news possible
in March 1995 a two-word press release
announced I’m back and he was in his
fifth game back Jordan dropped 55 points
and went on to help his team to the
playoffs the Bulls were eliminated in
the conference semifinals that year but
went on to clinch three more
championships from 1995 to 1997
the common factors in all six
championships were Michael Jordan
Scottie Pippen and coach Phil Jackson
the Bulls first three-peat ran from 1990
to 1993 and included Bill Cartwright
Horace Grant John Paxson and BJ
Armstrong the latter included Luc
Longley Steve Kerr Ron Harper Toni Kukoc
and Dennis Rodman the status of both the
Bulls and Michael Jordan himself
single-handedly grew the NBA’s
popularity around the world in fact the
1998 NBA Finals was the most-watched
championship series in NBA history as
all good things come to an end the bulls
dynasty disintegrated this sent the
franchise into turmoil and kicked off a
decade of underperforming but by the mid
2000s the club made it back to the
playoffs and at the end of the decade
they returned to prominence after
drafting Derrick Rose with the number
one pick in the 2008 Entry Draft the
club holds many records including the
best overall win-loss season record with
72 and 10 in 1995-96 and of course
Michael Jordan holds numerous individual
records and was inducted into the Hall
of Fame in 2009 in bounds the Cartwright
– Jordan time winding down Michael
in their six appearances in the NBA
Finals the Chicago Bulls have never lost
this is just one statistic that proves
this team is deserving of its legacy as
a successful sports dynasty 12 seed /
headed to a the tomahawk duck again
Derrick Rose abusing the Blazers here in
the Rose Garden that was sick wicked and
nasty
won more than 70 games in a single
season welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be continuing our series of
the most successful sports franchises
with a look at the Chicago Bulls founded
in 1966 the Chicago Bulls are the third
National Basketball Association
franchise to play in the Windy City
today they play in the Central Division
of the Eastern Conference beginning play
in time for the 1966-67 season the Bulls
posted the best record by an expansion
team in NBA history and advanced to the
playoffs in their inaugural year after
playing their season at the
international amphitheater the club
moved to Chicago Stadium before finally
moving to the United Center in 1994
despite their initial success the club
floundered from the 1970s to the early
1980s in fact the simple toss of a coin
at the 1979 NBA Draft could have forever
changed their fate general manager Rod
Thorn called heads in that toss and that
got the Bulls the second choice with
that they drafted David Greenwood after
Magic Johnson went first Johnson went on
to lead the LA Lakers to a successful
1980s decade green wits career lasted 12
unspectacular years and he bounced from
team to team the Bulls learn from their
mistakes and by 1984 they capitalized on
their third pick the Chicago Bulls pick
Michael Jordan
North Carolina the Houston Rockets
selected Hakeem Olajuwon first overall
and the Portland Trailblazers drafted
Sam Bowie second the Bulls then pounced
on University of North Carolina’s
shooting guard Michael Jordan
immediately new owner Jerry Reinsdorf
and general manager Jerry Krause began
to build a team around this young player
Jordan was successful from the get-go
but it wasn’t until the Bulls drafted
traded and signed a strong supporting
cast that the team really took off this
dynasty’s record includes six
championships in eight years including
two three piece however in between those
three Pete’s came a shock mere months
after his father was murdered Michael
Jordan stunned the league and fans alike
when he announced he would be retiring
with Jordan gone teammates Scottie
Pippen affirmed himself as one of the
best players in the game after the team
left the madhouse on Madison for the
United Center in time for the 94-95
season they got the best news possible
in March 1995 a two-word press release
announced I’m back and he was in his
fifth game back Jordan dropped 55 points
and went on to help his team to the
playoffs the Bulls were eliminated in
the conference semifinals that year but
went on to clinch three more
championships from 1995 to 1997
the common factors in all six
championships were Michael Jordan
Scottie Pippen and coach Phil Jackson
the Bulls first three-peat ran from 1990
to 1993 and included Bill Cartwright
Horace Grant John Paxson and BJ
Armstrong the latter included Luc
Longley Steve Kerr Ron Harper Toni Kukoc
and Dennis Rodman the status of both the
Bulls and Michael Jordan himself
single-handedly grew the NBA’s
popularity around the world in fact the
1998 NBA Finals was the most-watched
championship series in NBA history as
all good things come to an end the bulls
dynasty disintegrated this sent the
franchise into turmoil and kicked off a
decade of underperforming but by the mid
2000s the club made it back to the
playoffs and at the end of the decade
they returned to prominence after
drafting Derrick Rose with the number
one pick in the 2008 Entry Draft the
club holds many records including the
best overall win-loss season record with
72 and 10 in 1995-96 and of course
Michael Jordan holds numerous individual
records and was inducted into the Hall
of Fame in 2009 in bounds the Cartwright
– Jordan time winding down Michael
in their six appearances in the NBA
Finals the Chicago Bulls have never lost
this is just one statistic that proves
this team is deserving of its legacy as
a successful sports dynasty 12 seed /
headed to a the tomahawk duck again
Derrick Rose abusing the Blazers here in
the Rose Garden that was sick wicked and
nasty
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