Today, our 27-33 Chicago Bulls, the 11th seed in the East, will play host to the visiting 28-31 Washington Wizards, the 10th seed. Both clubs occupy similar positions of utter irrelevance in the national NBA conversation, as each has been totally de-clawed by internal systemic rot for years. They’ll be battling it out for scraps as play-in tournament also-rans today, a total indictment of both franchises’ failure to build sustainable winners in recent years.
Last summer, the Wiz overpaid their “superstar” guard, Bradley Beal, to the tune of a five-year, $251 million maximum salary ($65 million more than a non-incumbent club could have offered the 29-year-old shooting guard).