LaVine and DeRozan may become the first multiple Bulls All-Stars since Jimmy Butler and Pau Gasol in 2016.
The brightest in the NBA and among its TV partners didn't see it coming, either.
If they had—and no doubt the NBA wish they did—the Bulls would be one of the featured Christmas Day games Saturday that are facing the absences of perhaps a half dozen stars like Trae Young, Kevin Durant, Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis. And then getting to watch five teams that are about or below .500 and fighting just to remain in the post season play-in conversation.