Any Regrets?

Poor Jerry Reinsdorf. His White Sox stink, and so did his Bulls this season. Worse, an ex-Bull is doing a spot-on imitation of Superman in the NBA playoffs. That would be Jimmy Butler, who took Zach LaVine—one of the players he was traded for—to school during the play-in game, when he scored 31 points. The eight-seed Heat should’ve been easy pickings for the top-seed Bucks. Instead, Butler led the way to a 4-1 upset in the Eastern Conference quarter finals. In the last two games, Butler scored 56 and 42 points, respectively. That comes out to a total of 98 points for any fans doing the addition. Try to imagine the Bulls pulling off an upset of this magnitude. Then, Sunday against the fifth-seed Knicks, Butler led the way with 25 points in a 108-101 win at the Garden, where, as we all know, basketball was invented. How interesting that Butler has made the playoffs each year since Gar Forman and John Paxson traded him as part of their 2017 rebuild of the team. And now for a little insult on top of the injury, or vice versa, if you prefer. The Bulls also got Lauri Markkanen in that deal. Markkanen basically played his way out of town after five seasons, going to Cleveland and then Utah Guess who won the Most Improved Player Award for his play with the Jazz? Lauri Markkanen with his average of 25.6 points a game, that’s who. LaVine averaged 24.8, if you’re wondering.