Lauri Markkanen was openly disappointed a deal on an extension didn’t get done by the Monday deadline, but it wasn’t like the Bulls forward needed to be talked off a ledge in the wake of it.
One less pile of food on an already crowded Billy Donovan plate.
“I mean, obviously disappointing, I wanted to get a deal done, but that happened, and we’re moving on and I’m 100 percent committed to this team and we keep moving forward and we’ll see what happens,’’ Markkanen said in a Tuesday Zoom call. “It’s another motivation for me. Obviously it’s not the main thing, but obviously it fuels my fire to play even harder and do what this team needs me to do.