Step one- Define the topic and purpose
Topic: Chicago Bulls and their story
General-purpose: to inform
Specific purpose: To inform my audience how Chicago Bulls, an American professional basketball team founded in 1966, won six NBA championship titles from 1991 to 1998; their success in the 1990s is credited to iconic players such Michael Jordan, Pippen Scottie, and coach Jackson Phil
Central idea: Chicago Bulls had their greatest success in the 1990s as the team played a significant role in popularizing National Basketball Association (NBA); the team is also known for having the greatest dynasties in the history of basketball helped in winning multiple championships.
Step two- Create the outline.
Introduction
- Chicago Bulls’ success began shortly after the signing of two remarkable players of the century, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, in the late 1980s and set the stage for the greatest achievement in basketball (Anderson, 2016).
- The team had set the highest record of winning 72 games during the 1995-96 season, which was broken in the 2015-16 season by the Golden State Warriors, who won 73 games.
Body
- The two iconic basketball superstars transformed the team’s performance tremendously, and the hiring coach Phil Jackson in 1989. The Bulls put together their first “three-peat†by sprinting through the Eastern Conference then running over Portland in the ’92 Finals and Phoenix in ’93 (Crepeau, 1993)
- The triangle offense installed by Jackson, the head coach, and his assistant Tex Winter was an offensive tactic that considered the movement of the players without the ball and their precise spacing.
- After a one-year “retirement,” Jordan returned to Bulls and led the team to win three consecutive championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998 the second three-peat (Crepeau, 1993).
Conclusion
Chicago Bulls was the greatest team of its era, and Michael Jordan and Jackson Phil, the head coach, had a great supporting cast to the team achievements; the team’s past sets high expectations for the future.
