Do the lowly Chicago Bulls, who have missed the playoffs just once during team president Arturas Karnisovas' five seasons at the helm, already have a franchise-caliber talent on their current roster?
Although they haven't been flat-out terrible since a splashy 2021 offseason, the Bulls have been essentially just sub-mediocre in recent years. Chicago has finished with a below-.500 record in each of the club's play-in tournament-bound seasons.
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Because the club isn't quite good enough, Chicago hasn't emerged out of the play-in to advance into the playoffs proper in any of those three seasons.
Still, one hoops expert is convinced the Bulls may have stumbled onto a future star in combo forward Matas Buzelis, the hyper-ath