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Best strategy for Bulls in the NBA draft lottery? The pope and a prayer

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The pope and a prayer isn’t a real plan, but it just might be the best one Arturas Karnisovas has at this point.

Heaven knows the current one isn’t working for the Bulls’ executive vice president of basketball operations.

Apparently, so do a lot of people.

“I think the pope should be focusing on the Bulls because they’ve got the [draft] lottery,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell told reporters recently when discussing Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV and the focus of his fandom.