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Bulls Nightly · podcast · every game night, two hours before tip-off

Bulls Tip-Off

Two hours before tip-off: who plays, what decides it, where to watch. 5 minutes with The host and The analyst, on the nights the Bulls play and never in between.

The voices
HThe host · runs the show
Opens with the one thing that decides tonight, keeps the pace, believes in the team until the numbers say otherwise.
AThe analyst · brings the numbers
Lineups, on/off, cap sheets. Every figure he says is in the brief on this site, or he doesn't say it.
Produced by the club's desk from the data on this site. The host and the analyst are roles, not people: no real person is portrayed, and every number in the show is on the page it links to.
3episodes
14minutes of Bulls talk
Oct 7on the air since

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Sun, Oct 11 · Bulls Tip-Off · 5:11

Jokic and a Short-Handed Front Line Await the Bulls in Denver

The Bulls head to Denver missing Nic Claxton and four more day-to-day regulars, with Jokić and Murray waiting in the paint and the backcourt. Patrick Williams' minutes could spike again just like last season, and the analyst walks through why the cap sheet gives Chicago less room than it looks.

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How the show works

Bulls Tip-Off is the pregame show, 5 minutes, and it exists only on the nights the Bulls play: the one thing that decides tonight, the opponent and the matchup that settles it, the injury report and who plays, the number of the day, the last game as the reason tonight looks the way it does, when it tips off and where to watch it, and one report from the insiders, always attributed. There is no show on the days without a game: nothing would have happened worth five minutes of your time.

Two voices carry it: the host runs the show, the analyst brings the numbers. They are roles of the Bulls Nightly desk, not people, and they never say a figure that is not on this site. Every episode has a full transcript with timestamps you can click to jump the audio, chapter markers, and the pages behind each number, so a claim in the show can always be checked on the page it comes from.

The episode is published two hours before tip-off, preseason included — after the league posts its official injury report, which is what makes the lineup talk worth anything. Subscribe with the RSS feed above in any podcast app; it is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube too (the buttons at the top), and short vertical clips go out on the Bulls Nightly social accounts. The archive on this page keeps every episode of the season, newest first.

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