None of the starters are injured and no one's been suspended. There's no speculation about job security, trades and the draft lottery. Everyone seems to like one another. The confidence seems earnest and authentic.
Yes, this is a story about the Bulls.
"The sky's the limit, man," Zach LaVine was saying following practice, not so much about the champion WNBA team but the Bulls' season and Wednesday's season opening game in Detroit. "You don't want to put a cap on anything before you've even played a game. I'm not sitting here saying we want to be in the first round of the playoffs or we want to be.