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Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas got exactly what he deserved Monday.
It’s not what he had hoped for or wanted to see when the balls finished bouncing around in the hopper at the NBA’s annual draft lottery, but it’s what he earned.
And it wasn’t just one sting, it was two.
The Bulls had an 85.2% chance to stay in the No. 12 spot of the draft, and that’s exactly how it played out. It wasn’t a shock, considering Karnisovas made it clear during the season that tanking to increase the Bulls’ odds of winning the lottery wasn’t in his DNA — not even with a can’t-miss prospect such as Cooper Flagg waving in the wind as the consensus No.