J. Kyle Mann

The Bulls just decided to not really tell anybody about this, and so what was the three second-round picks they were getting for Kobe White is now just two second-round picks, which means Charlotte, in the grand accounting of some of their moves, flipped...

Colin Sexton, Usman Jang, and basically net neutral picks because they took in two second rounders by taking on Tyus Jones's deal, and they got Kobe White and Malachi Branham.

So good for Charlotte.

Chicago, perpetually, what are you doing?

Arturis Karnisavis is out in front saying, we don't want to be in the middle of the league anymore.

We are prioritizing our flexibility as a franchise.

I would love that.

Where has this guy been for the last five years would be my question.

Follow-up, if the outcome of your flexibility is paying Anthony Simons or Colin Sexton what you were going to pay Kobe White or Io DeSumnu, I don't really understand where that flexibility has taken you.

So I look forward to revisiting in the summer exactly what the Bulls have done or not done and holding the executives to account as far as what they said this was all about.

But one could argue playing Yabu is a tanking measure this season, unfortunately.

And that pains me personally to say.

But Justin, I have to say, you taking this particular anti-tanking bent at this moment in time strikes me as very odd because the singular reason why your Portland Trailblazers are probably going to be in the NBA playoffs, or at least in the play-in, is because literally who is going to compete with them at this point?

Well, yeah, as far as the play in, the answer is why not both?

I think you would have to pry either of those teams out at this point just because everyone below them has no incentive to win whatsoever.

And we'll give progressively less of a shit as we go.

I'm not going to watch it.

I got to be honest with you guys.

What's wrong with you?

Un-American.