The future has been bleak for a while in Chicago, but somehow it continues to get darker.
The Bulls' most attractive trade assets, Coby White chief among them, are quickly and severely losing value, giving the franchise three options: Deal them for pennies on the dollar, lose them for nothing or overpay to retain them and continue the cycle of mediocrity.
None of those choices is attractive, but this is what happens when you stack years of poor roster-building decisions -- you back yourself into a corner and have to make even more poor roster-building decisions to get out.