Artūras Karnišovas took a calculated risk in the summer when he decided the Chicago Bulls roster needed only a little tweaking.
The Bulls executive vice president bet on the players who led the team to its first playoff appearance in five years, keeping the status quo and adding a reliable rim protector in Andre Drummond and depth at point guard in veteran Goran Dragić.
In doing so, Karnišovas was counting on the return of the team that had the best record in the Eastern Conference for the first 20 games of last season, not the injury-riddled one that lost 15 of its last 22 games and barely competed in the opening-round playoff loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.
