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Zach LaVine is on a quest to shed his label of “the empty-calorie scorer”

Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine never does anything well enough in the eyes of the pundits.

His defense isn’t good enough, which is a perception he is pissed exists. Offensively, all he did was average 23.7 points per game for the Bulls last season, yet he has an established reputation as an empty-calories scorer.

To be fair to the haters, that scoring translated to just 22 wins for the Chicago Bulls last season. In fact, in his five NBA seasons, LaVine has never played on a team with a winning record and has never experienced the blood-rushing thrill of postseason basketball.