We’re barely a month into this Bulls offseason, and it’s already gone from questionable to bad to bizarre.



First, the Bulls stood by their word and gave Jim Boylen an extension after his turbulent 17-41 coaching debut. Then they plummeted three spots in Tuesday night’s NBA Draft Lottery, walking away with the seventh pick in a one-to-two phenom draft.



That was the questionable and the bad. The bizarre has barely been mentioned, but it continued into Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. It came when executive vice president of basketball operations John Paxson pivoted from publicly pushing Kris Dunn to improve to outright dismissing him as a starter.



“We feel that at the 2, 3, 4, 5 spots, we’re really solid,” Paxson said minutes after the lottery heartbreak hit.



When the smoke cleared from Tuesday night and the sun again rose Wednesday morning, I remembered that quote and went: “Wait.