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The Chicago Bulls is a professional National Basketball Association team located in Illinois. It is one of the eight teams included in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of NBA and the third ever in Chicago. They play in Chicago wearing black and white colored uniforms. To date they have bagged six NBA championships, six Conference titles and seven Division titles.
The Bulls played their first season in 1966-67 and made it to the playoffs. They remained mediocre during mid seventies to mid eighties and posted just two winning marks and one playoff qualification. They acquired the right to the make a third pick in the 1984 NBA draft which they used to acquire Michael Jordan which proved a beneficial move for the team. He was an instant success and bagged the NBA rookie of the year title. Other distinguished players were Pippen and Rodman.
Michael Jordan went on and redefined not only the game but also rewrote its record books that gave him the status of the best NBA player of all times. In the start of 90s the Bulls posted a record 61 wins and won the conference finals against opponents the Lakers on 12th of June,1991 . Michael Jordan was awarded the MVP and the Finals MVP title which was is fifth title in a row. This was also a first of three consecutive titles for the Chicago. Jordan took an early retirement owing to his fathers demise but made a comeback in 1995 and steered the team to three more championships. In the 2004 0ff-season an additional pick was made in return for a pick in 2005 to the Phoenix Suns. The pick was utilized to acquire Ben Gordon and Chris Duhon in the first and the second rounds respectively. Several of their players performed very well and they gave steady performances in the 2004-05 season. In fact the Bulls had the third best record at the end of the season in the East Conference and they managed to grasp a playoff which was their first ever since 1998. They won against opponents The Toronto Raptors at a score 110-97.
They participated in NBA's St. Patrick's Day uniform program which was held for the first time in 2006 wearing special green colored uniforms. Though they changed their red colored road uniforms to green but maintained their traditional logo on their shorts and on the back of their jerseys and wore it in a match against the Miami Heat. In the year that followed the Bulls made a hearty participation again in the St. Patrick's Day uniform program. Again their original red colored road jerseys were exchanged for the uniform they wore the previous year.
They wore the specially designed uniform on two occasions, one on the 13th of March and the second time on the seventeenth of March whereas in 2007-2008 season the special uniforms were worn against the New Jersey at New Orleans.

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