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Some teams work as a grand idea, as a theory, as a vision in someone’s fevered imagination, but don’t work in real life. The Bulls are one of those teams.
Put Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic together and you have dynamite. That was the belief, at least. It takes a Big Three to win in the NBA, and the Bulls had theirs. What team vice president Arturas Karnisovas apparently failed to consider was that a trio of talented players would be incapable of bringing out the best in each other and creating a team that was greater than its parts.