Twenty-five years after Chicago’s hoops eminence ended in a ‘‘last dance,’’ the Bulls will wake up Saturday so far from championship No. 7 that there’s no telling where it might be on the vast horizon.
Of course, that would have been true even if they had beaten the Heat in a must-have play-in game Friday in Miami. Had they survived, the Bulls still likely would have been dead men walking, with a first-round series against their foremost tormentors — the Bucks — awaiting them.
