Needless to say, with a star player unlikely to play for a majority of the season, hopes have not been real high for the Bulls this season. Sure, the team sits atop the division at the moment, good enough for a fourth seed in the Eastern Conference if the playoffs were to start today. Still, as admirably as Chicago's effort might be on a nightly basis during what has arguable been the softer part of its schedule, there's little reason to believe that the Bulls will be much of a threat to the defending champion Heat, let alone several other "contenders" in the East.
While I was merely going to be content to note that Chicago is at least leading its division once again and not think much of it, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski went and reported a little story this week that suddenly gives Bulls fans quite the reason to begin dreaming about ripping that championship window wide open. If Kevin Love indeed wants out of Minnesota, then it is awfully hard not to recall what team he was quoted as admiring last year.
While Love does not become a free agent for another two years, a suddenly disappointing Bears season provides the perfect time to begin speculating about all of the players we'd be willing to part with to acquire this All-Star forward (translation: everybody except Derrick Rose). The idea of having two 24-year-old players of that caliber on the same squad should be enough to make any fan excited.
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