The Chicago Bulls have announced that Luol Deng, Drew Gooden, and Kirk Hinrich as the team's captains for 2008-2009, the Chicago Sun-Times are reporting.

''I met with all the players [Monday] and got kind of a consensus,'' Coach Vinny Del Negro said. ''Then I made some decisions on it. I felt that way and so did the team, so it was an easy decision.''