Patience was not the issue.
Zach LaVine was given more than half the season to make it work, but a 20-22 record with a 57% team chemistry wasn’t getting it done.
I fired the team trainer, shopped for a blockbuster deal and scouted all of the shooting guards just in case, but little video-game Zach wouldn’t come off of his demand of a new deal at $37 million a year, so to the trading block he went.
In the end, LaVine and Alex Caruso were Philly-bound, while the new-look Bulls acquired Ben Simmons and Andre Drummond with an unprotected first-round pick in 2022.