Adam Amin

They want the, to have the United States included with major league players at the Olympics in a couple of years.

And I understood what he was saying.

It wasn't a knock on the WBC.

It was a, Hey, we should also be part of the Olympics too.

I mean, it's such a weird dynamic right now, right?

Because...

I do see the big picture.

The big picture is you probably want to lose games.

You probably want to increase your lottery odds as much as possible.

I also think the Bulls have a little bit more cushion to win a few here and there because I don't know how much better your odds are going to be.

You're not going to catch up to the worst five or six teams.

You're probably not going to catch up to the worst six teams.

in the NBA in terms of worst winning percentage to get the best lottery odds.

I just don't think it's going to happen.

The Bulls kind of committed to this methodology, and if you want to call it soft tanking, I think that's the first phrase that comes to mind.

I don't necessarily call it that on the air.

I don't know if that's necessarily the right thing to do.

It's not respectful to what the players are actually trying to do because the players are not trying to lose games, and that has been made very apparent recently.

by watching these games when Colin Sexton's going off for 58 points in two games, and these guys are playing hard down the stretch against Phoenix to try to win a game.

It's a weird dynamic, and I, at the end of it all, would love to be able to say, oh, the Bulls ended up with the best possible lottery odds that they can get.