Perfect. Just perfect. Enough of an overused figure of speech in sports to fit a graphic used by the social media team of a broadcast network, but - outside of one anomaly of a rare winning night - not anywhere near applicable to the players featured to be seen as anything other than a (wait for it) punchline. The Bulls are admittedly an awful team, but even they aren't shitty enough to consider Bobby Portis and Nikola Mirotic a true "1-2 punch" in any way that doesn't have '1' standing over the mildly conscious body of '2' with a sore fist. That's why you simply have to appreciate that the station with the unfortunate responsibility of making bad basketball available for regional consumption decided to lean in to the lousiness by delivering a jab and taking the response on the chin better than the 6'10 Spaniard with a flaring temper that clashes mightily with his fragile jaw. If your programming is predominantly going to be depressing then you have to do whatever possible to keep things loose. That's a lesson the Chicago Bulls locker room failed to learn, and thus became one that NBC Sports Chicago was able to use in laughing at themselves.
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