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Bulls shut out of All-NBA teams, face offseason facelift originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
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Just over a month ago, following a second straight season without a playoff appearance, executive vice president Artūras Karnišovas vowed to take action.
“I’ve said numerous times today: This group, something doesn’t work. I have to find ways to find a group that’s going to make improvements. We’ve done it for a couple years now and it hasn’t worked,” Karnišovas said on April 20. “Everything is on the table.
“I am going to look at totality of the group. This group hasn’t worked. There’s a lot of great things in certain individual players and a lot of young guys who took a step forward and it’s positive. But in totality as a group, it didn’t work. So I’m going to have to find these answers in offseason.”
Karnišovas and the Bulls didn’t need Wednesday’s reminder that the Bulls no longer have any players on their roster who earned All-NBA status. For the second straight season, the Bulls were shut out from the three teams. DeMar DeRozan received one vote for third team.
Perhaps luckily for the Bulls, only four of the 15 honored players reside in the Eastern Conference.
Still, 2021-22 seems so long ago. That’s the Bulls’ last playoff appearance and All-NBA designation, with DeRozan making second team following a season in which he and Zach LaVine also made the All-Star team.
Now, the organization is focused on a LaVine trade as its top priority this offseason.
For what it’s worth, more chatter and rumors emanated from last year’s NBA Draft Combine in Chicago than this year’s edition regarding LaVine. Finding a team willing to take on $139 million over the next three seasons for a player coming off his third surgery is a significant risk.
Nevertheless, this still feels like a relationship that has run its course and it’s a matter of when, not if, LaVine is dealt.
But what happens if the Bulls can’t trade LaVine this offseason? How does Karnišovas accomplish his goal of improving his group?
From this view, which assumes a…
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Author : NBC Sports Chicago
Publish date : 2024-05-23 00:26:57
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