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The importance of it goes beyond just the meaning. Maybe beyond basketball. We’ll have to wait and see.
To say he needed this more than we did might be an understatement but, at the same time, be comparably inaccurate. While it’s his life and his career, it has been our reoccurrence, our haunting. Wait and see. Something that had been his life for the last 1,006 days. Since the last time he officially donned a Bulls uniform. Even as we watched him set Protro on the court and the counting stopped for him, we continued.