CHICAGO — Every player on the Chicago Bulls might be worse than public opinion of him.
You have guys who've achieved and won in the league, so their names now do more than their games (Dwyane Wade, Rajon Rondo). You have guys once underrated and now respected to the point that they're a little overrated (Jimmy Butler, Robin Lopez).
And you have guys whose poor training camps leave them far from the potential we dreamed for them (Nikola Mirotic, Bobby Portis, Jerian Grant).
Simply put, there's reason to be skeptical of both the parts and the whole in Chicago, where folks are just peeking out from under that ever-obfuscating Derrick Rose injury cloud.
The reasons go beyond the somewhat suspect games of the players involved.
The June trade of Rose to the New York Knicks signaled the team was beginning to rebuild after all the Rose uncertainty grew tiresome. The choice was fitting considering Fred Hoiberg played at Iowa State for Tim Floyd, who oversaw his own rebuilding effort in Chicago when the Bulls broke up their last three-peat title team in 1998.
Yet upon ...
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