Mark Shanowski

And I thought that he always found the sweet spot in that.

And we did like 275 episodes of the Give Me the Hot Sauce podcast.

And I can maybe count on one hand the times where I thought, wow, he's kind of going after that guy.

He was always measured in his critiques because he knew from his own playing career how difficult it could be at times.

And I think that fans appreciated that.

And I know that the Bulls players through the years,

They love Stacey.

They accepted him as one of their own because he was always fair to them.

He understood the trials that they went through over an 82-game schedule, and they appreciated his fairness and honesty.

Mark and Marshall, thanks for having me on.

Stacy was a legend in the broadcasting industry, and Bulls fans are going to miss him tremendously.

Yeah, just unbelievable news that I got yesterday morning.

Stacey, a true broadcasting legend and a great friend, and he's going to be missed terribly by Bulls fans if

Well, I'm actually old enough that I covered Stacey as a player during the Bulls' first three-peat, and I remember him coming in as a highly touted player at Oklahoma.

Old enough to remember Stacey as a college player.

He was the National Player of the Year.

He led the Sooners to the National Championship game, and I can't tell you...

how many times that whenever it's brought up that they lost to Danny and the Miracles in the national championship game, Stacey would get really angry all over again because they had beaten Kansas twice during the regular season, and they thought that they were going to win the national championship, and they didn't play their best game that night.

and Manning and Kansas beat him, and he was always bitter about that.

But I got to cover him during the Bulls' first three-peat, and then, of course, after he retired, he coached for a while in the CBA with the Rockford Lightning, and then he got into broadcasting.