Two years ago, the Chicago Bulls made a massive shift in their overall philosophy. They were done rebuilding. It was time to compete for the playoffs. Chicago traded for Nikola Vucevic at the 2021 trade deadline and signed DeMar DeRozan, Lonzo Ball, and Alex Caruso that following summer.
Since then, they have made the playoffs in one of two seasons, but this past year, they were eliminated in the Play-In Tournament. And while the current core doesn’t seem to be a championship-caliber group, Arturas Karnisovas intends to keep them together. However, Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, Karnisovas and the Bulls may be chasing “fool’s gold.”
