The Chicago Bulls have doomed themselves for more mediocrity

The Chicago Bulls are becoming a textbook example of overvaluing your own players. At the turn of the decade, the Bulls started revamping their team after a three-year stretch mired at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. They started with the front office, cleansing themselves of the Jim Paxson and Gar Forman era that brought mixed results. They brought in Arturas Karsinovas — former Vice President who helped lead an enviable rebuild for the Denver Nuggets — and named him their new President of Basketball Operations. Karsinovas wasted little time turning the organization into his own. ...