Zach LaVine was returning questions from reporters late Wednesday night like in a tennis match after the Bulls narrow loss to the Golden State Warriors. Your knee? Your wind? Your conditioning? Your shooting after a two-of-12 game? Good, good, all good. It's been something of a puzzlement in the three-game return for LaVine after ACL surgery and 11 months not playing in an NBA game. How could he look that comfortable? Something must be wrong.
LaVine already is the perhaps the most patient and forthright with media, and not that he was exasperated. But he turned back to reporters:
"You guys tell me," he said rhetorically with a welcoming smile because, well, he knew.