Chicago Bull Case Study

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Chicago Bulls Continue Promising Rebuild

Adnan Basic

Reporter

Picture Caption: “A sellout crowd at the United Center for a Bulls home game”

The Chicago Bulls 2017/18 season has been interesting, to say the least. Most assumed the team would tank the year away, and that seemed like that was the plan early on. The Bulls traded star Jimmy Butler to Minnesota for some youngsters with potential. Chicago was the worst team in the league by a country mile at the start of the season, but that begun to change. It started with the return of Nikola Mirotic from injury, who kickstarted a 10 game win streak for the Bulls, pushing them up the NBA standings. The team came back to Earth after a while, but were winning more games than experts thought they could. Now, as All-Star weekend approaches, Chicago sit at 18-30. Not great, but much better than anyone was expecting at this point.
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The former dunk champion suffered an ACL injury last season, and was out for nearly a year. He has been slowly brought back into the team, as coach Hoiberg has put him on a minute restriction. Bulls fans like freshman IMC major Eric Kron are excited to see him back, and hope he can be a key part of this growing Chicago team. “I remember watching him with the Timberwolves last season, and thought he had something to him. It was cool to see him traded here, and I just hope he can put his injury behind him to prove himself with the