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Bulls’ Wendell Carter Jr. benched, as his ‘reframing’ moves forward

Billy Donovan is well aware of the fact that third-year big man Wendell Carter Jr. gets stuck in bad moments.

The coach didn’t need to watch Carter’s somber press conference after Friday’s loss to Miami to get a reminder of that.

What Donovan is focused on, however, is trying to make sure Carter has less and less of those moving forward.

“I do think [Carter] can change,’’ Donovan said on Sunday. “The way I’ve tried to get him to reframe his thinking, so to speak, is I’m sure in his daily conversations or when you guys have spoken to him, it probably comes across pretty clear that he’s a real good team guy, and he really is.