Chicago Bulls fans greeted Grayson Allen to the United Center with a chorus of boos. The Milwaukee Bucks guard earned Chicago’s hatred for his flagrant foul back in January that sidelined Alex Caruso.
The Chicago Bulls have clearly missed Caruso since he was injured. Bulls fans made sure Allen knew exactly how they thought of him.
The Chicago Bulls players also gave a small measure of revenge when Derrick Jones Jr. delivered a hard foul to Allen with 8:21 left in the game. The problem was the timing was really bad as it happened in the fourth quarter, that game was tied at that point, and Jones Jr. was called a flagrant foul one.
That allowed Allen to make two free throws. It could have been even worse had Allen made a three-pointer.
Allen continues to give the Chicago Bulls faithful reasons to not like him. First, he had a questionable small collision with Ayo Dosunmu in the third quarter.
Then, he gave a less than rave review of the reception he got from the United Center crowd.
Grayson Allen asked about the crowd im post-game interview: “That was weak, I’ve had way worse in college.”#FearTheDeer
— Brandon Sneide ? (@Brandon_Sneide) March 5, 2022
Allen right now appears to be the Riddler in Chicago Bulls lore. The thing about Allen is he has always had the dirty player reputation going back to his college days at Duke. He has come nowhere close to the actions of Dennis Rodman during his Detroit Pistons days.
The only reason Rodman received forgiveness was that he helped the Chicago Bulls win three more championships during the Michael Jordan era.
Plus, Allen’s villainous actions come nowhere close to these five players in Chicago Bulls history.
Derek Harper
This spot could be reserved for Patrick Ewing. The New York Knicks and the Chicago Bulls had an intense rivalry in the early 1990s. Ewing was the superstar of those hated Knicks teams. Whenever anger towards Ewing comes up, think back to Scottie Pippen’s famous dunk over Ewing. It will forever be the greatest posterizing slam.
It was Harper who actually helped take the rivalry to its most intense level. During the 1994 Eastern Conference Semi-Finals, Harper delivered a hard foul in Game 2 to B.J. Armstrong.
In Game 3, Jo Jo English and Harper came to blows. The fight was so bad it ended two rows up at Chicago Stadium. Harper gave English a vicious takedown and it resembled something out of WWE.
Harper ended up being suspended for the next games of the series. He has been hated by Chicago Bulls ever since.
