Finally.
Not just with his first-half performance against Sacramento on Monday night, and not just with the on-going discomfort in his left knee. Not even with his teammates.
No, it was the outside optics of all of it.
He’s supposed to be one of the faces of a Bulls team that spent weeks atop the Eastern Conference standings, serving notice to the entire league that the organization was now different. That LaVine was different.
And as of Tuesday, both he and the Bulls looked more like pretenders than contenders in an on-going fraud investigation that’s continued to turn up more and more damning evidence against them.