Jim Deshaies

Stacey was interested in starting a podcast, and we did a couple episodes, and he liked it, and the thing just kind of took off.

We expanded to YouTube, and now the episodes had been aired on Chicago Sports Network.

So Stacey was very proud of

the growth of the podcast, it gave him another outlet to connect with his fans.

And he was always excited to do it.

You know, we did a new episode every week.

And Stacey and Horace were kind of alternating starts in his first couple of years before Horace took on that role solidly as the full-time starter at Power Forward.

But Stacey was a big contributor to those first three championship teams, and he always tells with pride the story about Game 6 in 1992 when he was part of that bench group that started the fourth quarter.

against the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Bulls were down double digits in that game, and it looked like they were going to lose and go to game seven.

And then that bench group with Stacey and Bobby Hanson and B.J.

Armstrong came in, and they kind of turned the momentum of things.

Then Michael came back in and closed the deal, and that was championship number two.

Stacey never really was able to accomplish, reach his ceiling as an NBA player.

He was a fantastic college player, as I mentioned earlier.

And he never really found that starting role where he got a chance to really show his full talent.

And I know that he had some regrets about that in his playing career.

But after he got into broadcasting, we found his true calling because he was recognized nationally as one of the best local TV analysts in the NBA.

And he took great pride in that.

And I know Bulls fans, even when the team wasn't doing well, would tune into the broadcast just to hear Stacey and Neil Funk and then later Adam Amin.

And, of course, again, for people who are younger, they didn't get the reference, but they came to know it in the next few days, and it became even more celebrated.