Mark Shanowski

My honor, please.

Before you got too big for us and started your own show.

But we loved having you on with us.

Yeah, early on when he was drafted, the Bulls still weren't sure exactly if they could count on Horace Grant to be their full-time starter.

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 the broadcasts were always so entertaining.

Well, you played one of them from last season when Josh Giddey hit that half-court shot.

He did the famous Fred Sanford line, Elizabeth, I'm coming to join you.