The Bulls are in a place no franchise wants to be.In the NBA, the middle is not where a franchise wants to be.
Unfortunately for the Chicago Bulls, this is where they currently find themselves—in a state of “purgatory” that The Athletic’s Darnell Mayberry describes as a place of limbo between being competitive and rebuilding.
Plan has backfired
The Bulls’ front office believed in the team’s “Big 3” of Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Nikola Vucevic so much they decided to give nearly the same roster another chance. This came after an underachieving season wherein they failed to make it to the NBA Playoffs despite the aforementioned players playing the most minutes out of any trio in the entire NBA.
This tactic naturally raised plenty of eyebrows, with many experts suggesting the team rebuild instead. But Bulls executive vice president Arturas Karnisovas stuck to his guns, and now, the Bulls have become one of the worst in the league, sitting near the bottom of the Eastern Conference with a 7-14 record.
Adding to the Bulls’ woes is the fact that they don’t have a lot of ways to improve the roster. LaVine has long been rumored to be on the way out, but experts have reported the market barely exists for the torrid scorer. The team’s young stud, Patrick Williams, is off to another slow start, and the Bulls do not have much draft capital because of previous transactions.
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