Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah recently told a crowd that he’s taken the summer to focus on himself and is looking forward to a “new chapter” in his career.

1. Bulls’ Joakim
Noah Optimistic
after Summer
Training, Charity
Work
By Yosef Meystel

2. Chicago Bulls
center Joakim
Noah recently told
a crowd that he’s
taken the summer
to focus on himself
and is looking
forward to a “new
chapter” in his
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3. Background
Noah dealt with a groin injury and knee
surgery in the 2013-2014 season, and he
said the past year was a tough one that has
proved humbling.
He spent the summer of 2015 at a sports
science academy in California, and in early
August, he reported that he felt great and
is ready to show that the Bulls can win big.

4. “Rock Your Drop” Campaign
Noah also recently unveiled his “Rock Your Drop”
campaign’s latest public service announcement,
which promotes peace, unity, and positive change
in response to Chicago’s ongoing gun violence
problem.
Rock Your Drop is a program of his Noah's Arc
Foundation, which he founded with his mother,
Cecilia Rodhe. He remains hands-on with the
organization, which he said has been a vision of
his since he started playing basketball.

5. “This is not a
gimmick,” he said at
the ONE CITY youth
basketball
tournament at the
Major Adams
Community Center in
Chicago. “It’s for the
right reasons. To be
able to do all this
work makes me
happy.”
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