Apparently, the black shoes helped Ben Gordon, among others. Whoo whoo!
ChicagoSports.com: In bow to tradition, black shoes get nod for opener:
Earlier this season, rookie guard Ben Gordon approached longtime Bulls equipment manager John Ligmanowski and asked to wear black shoes.
“He always said, 'You've got to wait until the playoffs,'” Gordon said Saturday. “I was like, 'We might not make it to the playoffs.'”
Never fear. The Bulls did. And a longtime tradition can continue.
In the first and perhaps only link to the dynasty days, the Bulls will break out black shoes for Sunday's playoff opener.
And as the game sputtered to a close (Wizards choked in the last 2 minutes), a graphic came up claiming 'First Bulls Victory since May 1988“. Marv Albert paused while reading it, but realized the graphic would have applied to Washington had they actually won, and correctly said ”First playoff victory since July 1998“. Some graphic tech is going to get chewed out tonight, and made to watch all six of the 1990's Bulls Championship game tapes before tomorrow..... I could think of worse punishments.
