CHICAGO—All season, the Chicago Bulls have needed a wakeup call of sorts. They’ve been winning (they’re 14-8), but not convincingly, dropping winnable games to mediocre teams.
At halftime on Monday night at the United Center, it looked like the Bulls may have been headed for their biggest embarrassment yet. They trailed by five points to the 1-24 Philadelphia 76ers: a team with only a handful of players on their roster who can be considered legitimate NBA contributors, that had been in the news in recent weeks for rookie Jahlil Okafor’s off-court behavior and some shakeups to their controversial #Process.