In late January, Thad Young looked up at the greaseboard in the Bulls locker room to see the number “950” written on it, courtesy of Jim Boylen.
“I was trying to figure out why that was on the board,” Young said in a recent interview, conducted before the unprecedented suspension of this season due to the COVID-19 virus. “And somebody said, ‘That’s how many games Thad has played.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, wow.’”
Even if this season continued uninterrupted, Young would have only landed on the precipice of one of the unspoken holy grails of the NBA — playing in 1,000 games.