Bulls Basketball: Where not caring happens

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Where Tyrus Thomas blows off practice because he’s mad about his playing time happens

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Where Larry Hughes not playing to win happens

(Picture of Chris Duhon at Duke-UNC game)

Where Chris Duhon blows off shoot-around and doesn’t care about his suspension happens.

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Bulls basketball: Where not caring happens

In case you haven’t heard the news, the latest Bull to blow off practice is Chris Duhon. This comes on the heels of Tyrus Thomas’ 2 game suspension for blowing off practice because he was upset over a lack of playing time, and Larry Hughes saying he doesn’t play the game to win, he plays to have fun, saying:

“I play to enjoy myself. Some people take this the wrong way, but winning a championship is not what I base everything on. I was given an opportunity to play basketball, travel around and have fun doing it, and that’s what I want to do. I wouldn’t take being unhappy and not being myself and winning. I would rather enjoy myself with 18,000-20,000 people watching the game and people sending fan mail and those things and be happy.”

After all this, Duhon went to the Duke-UNC game on Saturday without telling Bulls management. He then missed the morning shoot-around, saying he never got his wakeup call, and he didn’t care for the suspension because he wasn’t planning on playing much and he knows the Bulls don’t want him back for next year. This is ridiculous. It’s gotten out of hand.

In January after Joakim Noah blew up at assistant Ron Adams, he got suspended 1 game for it. The players didn’t feel that this was enough and decided to increase it another game. It was a unanimous vote, which means Ben Wallace, Thomas, and Duhon were in on it. Who are these players to suspend Noah, one of the few players on this team who actually cares, when they don’t care themselves? This is despicable. John Paxson is going to need to blow this whole team up if he wants to re-make the team into a title contender.