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Six of the eight participants are first-timers.

Regardless of whether the Bulls front office can pull off a trade before Thursday’s deadline, this current roster needs to start picking up the pieces and covering the holes rather than leaning on them as a crutch. Relying on being rescued remains a bad look for a contending team.

LaVine (back/knee) and White (groin) sat on Friday for the game in Indiana, but the hope was both were short-term injury setbacks. Considering the Bulls are in the midst of playing seven games in 10 nights, expect coach Billy Donovan to keep a close eye on his roster.

With the NBA trade deadline just days away on Feb. 10, the 76ers are expected to pursue Harden in the coming days and the Nets are believed to be open to discussing a deal, sources with knowledge of the situation tell The Athletic. There's ...

Brian Lewis: #Nets guard James Harden (left hamstring tightness) is out tonight vs the #Jazz. Source: Twitter @NYPost_Lewis What's the buzz on Twitter? Sarah Todd @ NBASarah Nets come into Utah on a 6-game losing streak. Harden, Durant, Harris, ...

Jay King: Jayson Tatum does not want to be in the 3-point contest: "Not this year, I don't want to be. I missed 20 3-pointers in a row." Source: Twitter @ByJayKing What's the buzz on Twitter? Brian Robb @ BrianTRobb Jayson Tatum is a big advocate ...

The Chicago Bulls piled extra work onto an already grueling stretch of seven games in 10 days with an overtime thriller Thursday night in Toronto.

A 127-120 overtime loss to the Raptors on Thursday was a reminder that the Bulls still lack size and physicality at power forward with the trade deadline less than a week away.

LaVine makes his second-straight All-Star appearance for the Bulls.