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Twenty-five years after Chicago’s hoops eminence ended in a “last dance,” the Bulls will wake up Saturday so far from championship No. 7, there’s no telling where it might be on the vast horizon.
Of course, that would have been true even if they’d beaten the Heat in a must-have play-in game Friday in Miami. Had they survived, the Bulls still likely would have been dead men walking with a first-round series against their foremost tormentors — the Bucks — awaiting them.