The NBA really should institute some way to avoid this final week mess of teams resting for ‘playoff positioning’. But as it stands, they don’t, and we had some final weekend regular season shenanigans that saw the Milwaukee Bucks essentially tank their last game of the season so they could drop into the 3rd seed and face your Chicago Bulls.
Honestly, if the NBA instituted a rule where the top-seeded teams would choose an opponent, the Bulls may have been the first pick given how they’re playing. I don’t mean over these last couple meaningless games, but the general poor play since Lonzo Ball went down and more acutely after the All-Star break when multiple individual performers regressed.