Doug McSchooler/AP
INDIANAPOLIS — The Bulls’ locker room isn’t soundproof.
The outside world is screaming at them to tank, and they hear it. They hear it all.
Their reply?
Save it.
“We all understand the narrative outside this locker room,” guard Josh Giddey said Sunday. ‘‘ ‘You gotta get a high draft pick, not make the playoffs.’ All that stuff. You can never tell guys not to compete because guys are playing for their lives, their livelihood, contracts, things like that.