The deadline trade with Cleveland has given the Chicago Bulls a crowded backcourt that makes changes this offseason virtually inevitable, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

Regardless of the rotation that interim coach Jim Boylan comes up with someone is going to be unhappy.  There simply is not enough minutes for all the players the Bulls have.

With Larry Hughes on big money for the next two seasons and Ben Gordon in restricted free agent status, one player who may be moved to help free space is Kirk Hinrich, K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

Larry Hughes doesn't think that playing hard on a game-by-game basis is the key to winning in the NBA, according to the Chicago Tribune.

"I really don't think we're missing on playing hard," Hughes told the Tribune. "You can play hard, but you have to play smart. This game is about strategizing. Playing hard doesn't necessarily get it done on a nightly basis. You have to execute."

The Chicago Bulls fined forward Andres Nocioni an unspecified amount following an outburst towards interim head Coach Jim Boylan during Saturday's loss to the Indiana Pacers, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

"I'm frustrated with myself right now, and I'm frustrated with everything," Nocioni said. "When something's not going the right direction, you want it go the right direction, and it's difficult. I think I'm not playing my minutes because I'm not playing well."

According to the report, Nocioni and Boylan have since made up after the outburst.

Bulls' guard Kirk Hinrich sat out against the Spurs on Thursday night with a sprained right ankle, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

"It kind of swelled up on me the last couple of days," Hinrich said. "I just wasn't moving very well on it. I just couldn't move when I tried to warm up."

He hopes to return against the Pacers on Saturday night.

"I feel like I could go [now], but I just don't feel like I would be very effective," he said.

A season and a half removed from his days with the Bulls, Tyson Chandler says he is no longer fixated on his former team, and believes the move to New Orleans is the best thing which could have happened to him, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

"Last season, I'd sit by the TV and wish all my negative vibes on them," Chandler said. "But the team they have now is a team I'm not familiar with."

"This is the best thing that could've happened to me," he said. "I'm in a situation where I feel like I can get better and better every year. I really feel I'm just scratching the surface of what I can do."

Guard Chris Duhon did not travel with the Bulls to New Orleans for their game against the Hornets on Monday night, according to the Times-Picayune.

He missed Sunday's team practice with the flu.

Last week he was suspended for one game for missing a practice after attending a Duke-North Carolina game. There has been some speculation that he could have played his final game with Chicago.

Regardless of what happens this off-season, Bulls' guard Ben Gordon says he has no regrets about turning down a 5 year, $50 million extension offer before the season, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.

"I'm happy with my decision, regardless what happens," Gordon said of the former. "We'll see what happens in the off-season."

The Chicago Bulls announced today the team has recalled rookie forward Demetris Nichols from the Iowa Energy of the D-League. The Bulls also announced they have placed Shannon Brown and Cedric Simmons on assignment with the Energy.

Nichols (6-8, 216) has appeared in four games with the Bulls since the team claimed him on waivers on Dec. 7, 2007. He has also spent time this season in New York and Cleveland, having appeared in three games with the Cavaliers before his stint with Chicago. In 14 games with the Energy this season, Nichols has posted averages of 19.3 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 2.9 apg, 1.14 spg and 1.00 bpg in 37.6 mpg.

Brown (6-4, 211) has appeared in four games since the Bulls acquired him via trade with Cleveland on Feb. 21, and holds averages of 6.0 ppg and 1.0 rpg in 12.3 mpg in 19 appearances this season with Cleveland and Chicago.

Simmons (6-9, 235), also acquired by the Bulls in the Feb. 21 trade, has seen action in four games in Chicago. On the season, he has played in 11 games and averaged 0.5 ppg and 1.5 rpg in 7.1 mpg.

Drew Gooden has been traded several times during his NBA career and has been traded in the media and on message boards like RealGM dozens more times.

"There were trade rumors over my head every year I played in a Cleveland Cavs' uniform, but that made me feel other teams wanted me."

Anucha Browne Sanders, the woman who sued MSG and Isiah Thomas, is currently working as an associate athletic director at the University of Buffalo.

Sanders said she had an exploratory conversation with the Bulls regarding an NBA return.

"If there was one team I'd want to work for, it's the Bulls because John Paxson is a man of character," Sanders said.