When I heard last night that—merely two days away from their start of the NBA regular season—Nikola Mirotic was on his way to the hospital because Bobby Portis embedded a crater in his face, I could not help but laugh.
I did not laugh because Mirotic was likely in immense physical pain. I did not laugh because most of us could see something like this happening in Bobby Portis’ bugged-out crazy-eyes from as far back as his college days. I did not laugh because this might not even be the most controversial preseason facial fracture that the Bulls have had in the last three years.