“When I’m done, it’s done,” he said. Weirdly, him and Stacey also have a great twisted chemistry since they're nothing alike. I don't dislike many announcers, but I sure dislike Funk. Didn't like the Coby White pick. “Whoever they bring in, I know it will be somebody good because the people they used last year — whether it was Jason Benetti or Adam Amin or J.B. Long or whoever they used — were terrific play-by-play guys,” Funk said. Now go out and make me look stupid Coby! … And his inability to get names correct has been an increasing problem. Neil Funk, the voice of five Bulls championship seasons, said he intends to step down from his TV play-by-play post after this season, his 29th with the team.

“You have mixed emotions.

[Cowley]: Bulls front office has bumped up the salary of coach Jim Boylen to not only remain the coach this season, but next season, as well. I wouldn’t mind doing an occasional college game or something like that, but no more NBA.” I'm excited for a fresh voice. I mean we sort of knew this going into last season. I'll add that I think Wayne Larivee and Tom Dore got a bum deal.

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Thank god. It’s hard for me to even thank him because I was never a radio listener, and on television I considered him one of the absolute worst in the business. The NBA has removed Omer Asik's deal from the Chicago Bulls' salary books via career-ending injury/illness, freeing up an additional $3M in space, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

After the test replacements last year, I still don't know who has the upper hand. Whatever they do, they do. It's a rising style, and one that's more than ripe for a new counter-exploitation. “We greatly appreciate everything that he has done for the team and look forward to celebrating his accomplishments during his final season.” Funk, who estimates he has called about 3,700 regular-season NBA games and roughly 240 postseason games in his career, is ambivalent about pomp and ceremony accompanying his exit. “It happens to everybody.

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He will call all 41 home games and 11 road games, plus the preseason and any playoff games for which he may be needed.

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“I don’t want to be intrusive. Funk called that championship, just as the retiring legend did for four other titles. “It’s time to say, ‘That’s enough,’ “ Funk said. There are some announcers who’s atrociousness is enjoyable and has a way of earning the embrace of fans.... Funk replaced Jim Durham in 1991-92 as the radio voice of the Michael Jordan-led Bulls, then coming off the first title of their first of two 1990s three-peats.

It hasn’t really hit me yet. “I’d like to do something to keep my hand in,” Funk said. I don’t think it will hit me until I get close to the very end.