This is when we look back at the previous year and think, snooze, fireworks again? Didn't I just see that at the Kane County Cougars Atomic Pork Chops night? For the Bulls in 2021, the skies did light up with perhaps not so much a Roman Candles' worth of highlights, though there were a few special ones these last few months. But with something of a smoke bomb that obscured basically every tenet in most of the franchise's history and perhaps might even be something of a template for the way NBA teams reconfigure and light up their futures.