Remember Jabari Parker? Let’s recap really quick: after signing a two-year, $40 million contract (with a team option in the second year) to return to his hometown to play basketball professionally, new head coach Jim Boylen has exiled Parker to the bench because of defensive effort/player-development priorities/whatever.
Even with Bobby Portis out with injury, Parker hasn’t played a minute in eight games.
Parker, in a tell-all interview with the Chicago Tribune’s K.C. Johnson late last week, is at least trying to be accepting of the role change without lashing out:
“I don’t think it’s Jim’s [Boylen’s] fault,” Parker said.