They got to the answer the wrong way — by making one of the worst NBA trades of the decade — but the Bulls will land in the right place Thursday: without a draft pick.
Drafts are the worst part about American sports. All drafts: not just the NBA version Thursday or the NHL one that a week later will hand-deliver the Blackhawks a generational prospect in No. 1 overall pick Connor Bedard. The Major League Baseball draft 10 days after that — where the Cubs pick 13th and the White Sox 15th — is a bore. The NFL draft averaged 6 million television viewers and totaled more than 300,000 in-person spectators in April. It’s the centerpiece of the league’s strategy to be omnipresent for all but 40 days each year — like Lent in reverse.
