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2016-17 Chicago Bulls Broadcast Schedule Announced

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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The Three Alphas Era of Jimmy Butler, Dwyane Wade, and Rajon Rondo creeps one step closer to really happening, as the Chicago Bulls broadcast schedule was announced on Thursday.

Today, the Three Alphas Era gets one step closer to really, truly being a thing (still can’t quite believe that this guy is a Bull now). Your Chicago Bulls announced their local television broadcast schedule, available for your viewing pleasure here. Broadcast duties for 70 regular-season games and all seven preseason bouts have been divvied up between Comcast SportsNet and WGN-TV. 12 games will be exclusive to national television. The greatest of all nickname creators, Stacey King, will again provide analysis duties, and silver fox Neil Funk returns for play-by-play. Comcast will tackle 42 regular season games and six of the seven preseason contests. CSN’s first regular season coverage will be the new-look Bulls hosting the new-look Indiana Pacers in a 2016 Olympic champion showdown of Team USA teammates Jimmy Butler and Paul George.

In a nod to Millennial viewing patterns, every Comcast telecast (including pre-game and post-game chatter) will live stream on Comcast’s website, CSNChicago.com. Comcast will also make games available for live cell phone streaming through the NBC Sports app.

WGN-TV will apparently not be boarding on the live-streaming train this season. But their TV broadcast arm will handle 28 regular season games (starting November 2nd as Chicago battles the Al Horford-era Celtics in Boston), and one preseason game. Chicago will also get 34 national games this year, starting with the Bulls hosting Beantown on an October 27th TNT broadcast. The Bulls will be on ESPN 12 times, the Ted Turner stations (TNT and NBA-TV) nine times each, and ABC four times.