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Maybe it was pounds. Maybe just ounces.
Bulls coach Billy Donovan wasn’t going to start guessing how much weight he thought his players have been carrying around lately under the specter of the trade deadline Feb. 6.
Besides, as far as he’s concerned, trade rumors or no trade rumors, the NBA is a no-excuses league when handled the right way.
‘‘I don’t want to speculate on how each person maybe handles those things,’’ Donovan said. ‘‘Zach [LaVine] and Vooch [Nikola Vucevic], being veteran guys in the league, have gone through that for periods of time.