In the 15 days since the NBA draft lottery that graced the Spurs with French basketball demigod Victor Wembanyama, reality has begun to settle in for several teams around the league. The Chicago Bulls in particular seem to be in the midst of a mid-life crisis of sorts here, trying to straddle the reality of an impending rebuild with play-in contention like a middle-aged father trying everything under the sun to retain his last wisps of hair.
Being faced with their own mortality, the Bulls are either going to string the status quo along for as long as possible – a la resigning Nikola Vucevic – or commit to a teardown.