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CHICAGO — It has been nearly 15 years since Billy Donovan first tried to get Tristan Thompson on his team — a fact the new Chicago Bulls center wasted no time teasing his coach about Wednesday.

The Bulls need a lot to go right to be perfectly whole for a playoff push, but there is optimism they will be. Some other contending teams in the Eastern Conference can’t say the same.

Chicago Bulls stars DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine ended the NBA All-Star Game in familiar fashion Sunday night — coming through in the clutch.

With the trade deadline, and now the All-Star Game, in the rear view mirror, the dog days of the NBA season are over. For DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVIne that means getting everybody on the same page come Wednesday, and getting ready for the final push.

No one could have envisioned the Nets entering the NBA All-Star break as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference. Yet here they are, a championship contender fighting for its playoff livelihood in a suddenly stacked conference with at least four other teams (Bucks, Bulls, Heat, Sixers and maybe the…

In 2020, when All-Star Weekend was held in Chicago, LaVine found himself in the middle of "Fire Gar/Pax" chants and questions about the failures of the Bulls’ front office. This All-Star Weekend in Cleveland was markedly different, not only for LaVine but for the Bulls’ organization.

MLB owners and players continue to spit into the wind, shoot rhetorical cannonballs across each other’s bows and dare us to just not care.

CLEVELAND — As he made the rounds in his second trip as an NBA All-Star, Zach LaVine didn’t hold back about his standing in the league with DeMar DeRozan: “We’re the best duo in the NBA.”