The Chicago Bulls are in a very weird spot. The core of Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Nikola Vucevic isn’t quite good enough to guarantee a playoff spot, but they will almost certainly avoid the bottom of the conference. Teams stuck in that range may be in a worse spot than any other teams in the league.
However, the Bulls have come a long way. Arturas Karnisovas is determined to compete, and at least he’s been more active than the preview regime of John Paxson and Gar Forman, commonly known as Gar-Pax. Chicago wasn’t a huge fan of Gar-Pax, but Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times recently gave the pair some credit.
