Chicago Bulls: Player grades through the All-Star break

By Luke Askew | Feb 19, 2019

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The NBA is currently on pause. The annual All-Star break is in full effect and teams are gearing up for the last leg of the season. How have the Chicago Bulls done thus far?

It’s no secret that the NBA season is a grind. The travel schedule is tough, back-to-back games are exhausting, and sometimes your coach still makes you practice ridiculously hard (only if your coach is Jim Boylen, though). The All-Star break is a well-deserved time to kick your feet up and take a deep breath.

While some NBA teams are using this year’s All-Star break to prepare for a playoff run, other teams are using the break to make off-season vacation plans. You can go ahead and include the Chicago Bulls in the latter.

The Bulls are currently 14-44 – good for the fourth-worst record in the association – and are desperately trying to figure things out. They’ve looked much better as of late, but that might actually be worse for them. Some NBA fans favor growth over tanking, some favor tanking over growth. There are legitimate arguments to be made on both sides.

The Bulls right now are stuck somewhere in the middle. They’re bad enough to masquerade as a tanking team, but they’re improving enough to masquerade as a team trying to win games.

Let’s forget the team aspect for a little and simply focus on the individuals.

Here are individual player grades for the six most important Bulls through the All-Star break.

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