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Chicago Bulls players
- Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where he described his early childhood as "trying." His mother, JoLinda, struggled with drug addiction and…
- Pau GasolPau Gasol Sáez was born on the 6th of July, 1980, in Barcelona, at Sant Pau Hospital, where both of his parents worked. He was 11 years old when Magic…
- Michael JordanMichael Jeffrey Jordan was born on the 17th of February 1963, in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, and before he was done, he would hold every…
- Scottie PippenScottie Pippen grew up in Hamburg, Arkansas, the youngest of twelve children, and was not offered a single college scholarship out of high school.
- Luol DengLuol Deng was born on the 16th of April 1985 in Wau, a city in what was then Sudan and is now South Sudan. Before he was a teenager, he had already fled a…
- George GervinGeorge Gervin scored 63 points in a single regular-season game while protecting a scoring title by the slimmest margin in NBA history: seven-hundredths of a…
- Toni KukočToni Kukoč was born on the 18th of September, 1968, in Split, Croatia, and he grew up playing table tennis well enough to win youth category titles in the…
- Artis GilmoreArtis Gilmore stood 7 feet 2 inches tall and played 670 consecutive professional basketball games without missing a single one.
- Joakim NoahJoakim Simon Noah was born in New York on the 25th of February, 1985. He played professional basketball for more than a decade.
- Luc LongleyLuc Longley was born in Melbourne on the 19th of January 1969, and by the time he was 25 years old he was standing at the Fremantle Port watching a new…