Mark Shanowski
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I did a year of pre and post with him at Comcast Sports in the studio, and then at that point,
Red Kerr was kind of winding down his broadcasting career and the Bulls were looking for another analyst and they gave Stacey a shot and he was so good, they immediately moved him to the full-time analyst role and his career really took off from there.
We started the podcast in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, which is kind of
Yeah, we started in November of 2020, and it was just an eerie time in the world where people really weren't doing much face-to-face contact, and we thought it'd be a good way to continue to communicate things.
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.
Mark, we were happy to have you on as our Bears contributor for a couple of years.
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.