Lauri Markkanen will have plenty of time to think about his future, especially if the Bulls continue fading away from the play-in game and their season is wrapped up in a depressing black bow with wilted flowers alongside it come May 16.
That’s when the restricted free agent can start figuring out if he’s played his last game for the organization that acquired his draft rights in the Jimmy Butler 2017 trade, and inaugurated Markkanen the future pillar of the franchise.
“Nah, I haven’t thought about that at all,’’ Markkanen said on Monday. “I let all that kind of stuff happen its own way after the season.