The scuffling Philadelphia 76ers will try and right the ship in the back end of a home-and-home set with the Chicago Bulls in the Windy City on Tuesday.

Geoffrey C. Arnold of The Oregonian: “The combination of mounting losses and frustrated owners has already resulted in two head coaches losing their jobs early in this NBA season

TrueHoop reader and food blogger Noah Galuten wonders if it’s time to blow up the Suns: “They are pretty clearly not going to win a championship this year. Player values will only drop as the season progresses

Luol Deng and his Chicago Bulls are heading to London next year.The NBA will announce that the Great Britain star and his team will play a friendly at London’s O2 in October.

Brian Schmitz of the Orlando Sentinel: “Eight years ago, in the wee hours of Sept. 25, Tony Battie was driving at breakneck speed to a Boston hospital. Paul Pierce, his Celtics teammate, was lying in his car, drenched in blood.

Derrick Rose, sitting quietly in front of his locker-room stall before the Chicago Bulls faced the 76ers last night, was asked whether he thought it was “daunting” to step right in as a starting point guard in the NBA.

Sixers aim to snap skid versus Bulls

The Philadelphia 76ers will try to snap a three-game losing streak Sunday when they welcome the Chicago Bulls to the Wachovia Center for the opener of a home-and-home series.

The Humane Society of the United States is recruiting Charlotte youths who own pit bulls for a program designed to end street-level dogfights. The agency and its partners will offer 13- to 22-year-olds a free, eight- to 10-week class to fight a national problem on the local level. Charlotte is the second city after Chicago chosen for the program.

Thanksgiving weekend has been fantastic. The eating, the family, all those things we all count on ..