
CHICAGO — After the Bulls won their fifth NBA championship in 1997, Michael Jordan sat at the postgame news conference and fielded a question about a potential rebuild.“No one is guaranteed rebuilding in two, three or four years. The Cubs have been rebuilding for 42 years,” he said, referencing their then-drought without a World Series appearance.A similar quip could be made about the Bulls now: 22 years after Jordan played his final game for the franchise, the team has not returned to the NBA Finals since. The Bulls have been to the Eastern Conference finals only once in that span, getting di…
