Editing Chicago Bulls (section)

===Black shoes and socks===
The Bulls have an unofficial tradition of wearing black shoes (regardless of being home or away) during the playoffs, which dates all the way back to [[1989 NBA playoffs|1989]] when they debuted the tradition.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ask Sam Smith: The Tribune's pro basketball reporter answers reader questions |url=http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/askthewriter/cs-070426asksamsmith,1,1025838.story?page=2&coll=cs-bulls-ask-headlines |access-date=September 9, 2007 |date=April 26, 2007 |publisher=ChicagoSports.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013113457/http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/askthewriter/cs-070426asksamsmith,1,1025838.story?page=2&coll=cs-bulls-ask-headlines |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> Then-Bulls backup center [[Brad Sellers]] suggested to wear black shoes as a way to show unity within the team. For the 1996 playoffs, they became the first team to wear black socks with the black shoes, similar to the [[Michigan Wolverines men's basketball|University of Michigan]] and the [[Fab Five (University of Michigan)|Fab Five]] which started the trend in college earlier in the decade. Since then, many teams have this look in both the regular season and playoffs. It was noted when the Bulls made their first playoff appearance during the 2004–05 season after a six-year hiatus, they continued the tradition and wore black shoes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bulls Take Game 1 |url=http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/view_content_1p.asp?ID=8033 |access-date=September 9, 2007 |date=April 24, 2005 |publisher=ComcastSportsNet.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013124525/http://chicago.comcastsportsnet.com/view_content_1p.asp?ID=8033 |archive-date=October 13, 2007}}</ref>

Even though the Bulls generally wear black footwear in the playoffs since 1989, there have been some notable exceptions. In the [[1995 NBA playoffs|1995 playoffs]] against the Magic, when Michael Jordan debuted his [[Air Jordan#Product history|Air Jordan XI]] shoe, he wore the white colorway during the Bulls' playoff games in Orlando. He was fined by the Bulls for not complying with their colorway policy. During the [[2009 NBA playoffs|2009 playoffs]], the Bulls again broke the tradition when all of their players wore white shoes and socks in Game 3 of the first round against the Boston Celtics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tradition broken |url=http://www.blogabull.com/2009/4/24/851230/image-fanshot |access-date=April 24, 2009 |date=April 24, 2009 |publisher=ESPN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708014039/http://www.blogabull.com/2009/4/24/851230/image-fanshot |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> More recently, since the NBA's relaxation of sneaker color rules, some Bulls players wore either red or white sneakers in defiance of the tradition.