The Chicago Bulls Are The NBA’s Best Worst Team

Their young core seems ready to do something special…if they can reach their potential.In one of the most widely panned deals of the decade, the supposedly inept management of the Chicago Bulls traded their star—a top-20 player, an All Star, and one of the premiere two-way wings in the league—for what seemed insufficient returns.

Jimmy Butler reunited with former Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau (now with Minnesota) in exchange for a player coming off a torn ACL, a top-five pick who had just a remarkably underwhelming season, and the seventh pick in the ‘17 draft. In addition to receiving a questionable haul of players/prospects, Chicago sent back—with Butler, mind you—its own first-round pick from…