Power Ranking Each Chicago Bulls Player for NBA’s Stretch Run

February 25th, 2016 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »
The Chicago Bulls came up empty at the trade deadline, with the exception of shipping out Kirk Hinrich to the Atlanta Hawks for Justin Holiday and a second-round draft pick. That wasn’t a bad trade, but the one they didn’t make made a lot more noise.

The Sacramento Kings allegedly offered Ben McLemore and Kosta Koufos, as well as a lowering of the protections on their draft pick, for Pau Gasol and Tony Snell, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical. However, those protections were owned in part by the Philadelphia 76ers, and they didn’t want to cooperate without getting something out of it. And honestly, why should they?

Following the All-Star break, the Bulls were massacred by nemesis LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in their first game back—the 13th loss in 18 outings. It looked as if the eighth-place Bulls were headed toward the lottery.

The lack of hope for this season, or anything resembling a front office considering the future, probably made that a low point for the year. With injuries to Joakim Noah, Nikola Mirotic and Jimmy Butler, and with Derrick Rose in and out of the lineup&mdash ...

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