Chicago Bulls
There’s someone out there who wants to buy gifts for Bulls fans but has never actually been to Chicago. Maybe they watched too many grainy videos of Michael Jordan as a child and thought “yeah, that’ll do for me”. Love for the Bulls doesn’t come with a local postcode these days. And it certainly doesn’t care what side of US President Trump is trending on Twitter. What it does need is the right gift. That’s the problem we’re trying to solve here. Because whilst picking gifts for yourself is hard enough, finding something worthwhile to give that Bulls fan is tougher. The official stores sell hundreds of largely unnecessary bumper stickers and plastic nonsense. Replica shirts your mum is never going to wash in every size. Keyrings. Novelty mugs that only say Bulls but don’t actually say anything at all.
We don’t care about any of that. We hunted down items that actually mean something to someone who grew up with basketball coursing through their veins. You don’t need to be a Bulls fan to appreciate what Chicago had in the 90s. Jordan and Pippen’s dynasty is one of the greatest stories in sport. Full stop. Not basketball. Sport. How often do six titles in eight years happen? How often does a team arrive led by a coach, Phil Jackson, who seemed to make the entire process sound existential, with a talent like Michael Jordan who was playing on another plane? Gifts that lean into the history of the team hit differently. They have gravity.
That’s why everything we’ve picked for this guide is where real quality meets real meaning. Presents that won’t end up buried at the bottom of a drawer forever. Or ones that feel like a good gift just because they arrived in a package with a Bulls logo on it. We wanted stuff that you’d actually want to own. That you’d be proud to stick on a shelf or your wall or your desk. Stuff that a Bulls fan will pick up and actually appreciate, as opposed to doling out some sad half-smile that mundane gifts receive.
The people who this edit is going to work best for remember where they were when for games. They can tell you the starting line up from half a dozen Bulls teams from the 1996 roster. They’ll know instantly if something is cheaply made. And they’ll notice when something is built to last. We picked everything in this guide with those people in mind, because let’s face it, those are the people that are actually worth buying gifts for. Get it right and you’ll strike gold.