It sounded so simple.
The new Bulls regime and coaching staff would use this season to not only develop this current roster, but evaluate it along the way, making decisions on what pieces were deemed keepers and which were expendable.
Twenty-three games in, however, that’s all but gone off the rails.
With starting center Wendell Carter Jr. (right quadriceps) already on the shelf for at least another few weeks, the team announced on Monday morning that Lauri Markkanen would be joining him, as an MRI showed that the blow he took to the right should in Orlando over the weekend, was in fact a sprained acromioclavicular joint, sidelining him for the next two-to-four weeks.