The Bulls were all smiles Tuesday, and not necessarily because they finally won a Summer League game, 82-73 over the Washington Wizards.
And not even so much because rookie first rounder Lauri Markkanen had his first double/double with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Well, that was encouraging, but it was more that it came a day after ESPN featured the rookie on its SportsCenter program loop as something of an NBA joke after Markkanen’s zero for 10 three-point shooting in the Monday loss to Atlanta.
ESPN kept showing Markkanen misses superimposed with a house of bricks being constructed.