How do you come to grips with living when others have died? How do you process the ultimate second chance? That was something Nikola Vucevic, once a Sixer and now a Chicago Bull, was asked to consider after a recent game between those two teams.
It was hardly the first time he has grappled with the topic. He and I had first discussed it when the veteran center was a Philadelphia rookie in 2011-12, struggling to find his way before he was dumped the following offseason, in the disastrous four-team deal that brought Andrew Bynum to the Sixers.