The Bulls can find athletes elsewhere. With the No. 14 pick in a supposedly weak draft, they selected someone who knows how to play the game.
When reporters showed up at the Advocare Center for the 2016 NBA Draft on Thursday, they found the Chicago Bulls had covered the windows. The Bulls have long aimed to operate under a facade of secrecy, and that wasn't about to change with an avalanche of Jimmy Butler trade rumors leaking out all around them.
In the end, the only thing the Bulls were really able to conceal was the selection of a player that hardly registered as a surprise.