Do Chicago Bulls Need More Trades to Rebuild Roster Properly?

January 28th, 2014 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

That thing you're smelling is the NBA's Eastern Conference emitting lethal amounts of awful.

In the thick of it all are the Chicago Bulls, pleasantly resilient and inadvertently mediocre in a conference that makes middling outfits look like kings. Not Sacramento Kings, actual kings.

Chicago accidentally has the East's fifth-best record and is one game behind the Atlanta Hawks and potential home-court advantage for the first round of the playoffs. I say "accidentally," because this wasn't by design. Everything the Bulls have tried to do this season has gone up in flames.

Coming in they figured to be contenders led by a healthy Derrick Rose and top-ranked defense. Look how that turned out. After he went down (again), in came proponents of tanking. The Bulls clearly weren't going to contend, why not blow it up? Because they're the Tom Thibodeau-led Bulls. They don't tank.

"It's just ... that's not a real fan to me," center Joakim Noah said of those who wanted the Bulls to tank, via ESPN Chicago's Nick Friedell. "You know what I'm saying? You want your team to lose? What is that? But it's all good."

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