With the All-Star break coming up, there’s just over a week to go before the trade deadline, and that means rumors all over the place. Both of the Lopez twins have been mentioned recently — Robin is one of the players a recent Basketball Insiders report claimed the Bulls were shopping for a first-round pick, while his brother, Brook, has been linked to the New Orleans Pelicans.

The two haven’t discussed it with each other.

“He once told me he would trade me to a high school team for a bag of Cheetos,” Robin said after the Bulls’ practice on Wednesday. “But that’s about it.”

Robin Lopez has been traded twice in his career — from New Orleans to Portland in the summer of 2013, and this past summer from the New York Knicks to the Bulls as part of the Derrick Rose trade. Brook, meanwhile, has spent his whole career with the Nets, despite rumors popping up every year. They’ve never been mentioned in the same rumor, though, and Robin has his own opinions about how it would go if they were ever traded for each other.

“I think whoever got Brook would be sorely disappointed,” he said. “That’s quite the presence to have to follow.”

Wade and Mirotic return to practice, Bulls’ health improving

On the health front, Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg had an encouraging progress report after practice Wednesday. Dwyane Wade, who has missed the Bulls’ last two games with a wrist injury, participated in about half of practice activities. Forward Nikola Mirotic, who has missed the last two games with back spasms, also practiced. Both are questionable to play Thursday against the Celtics, the Bulls’ last game before the All-Star break.

Jimmy Butler, meanwhile, participated fully in practice and felt no lingering effects of a heel injury that had kept him out four of the six games on the Bulls’ recent road trip. Butler returned to the Bulls’ lineup in Tuesday night’s win over the Toronto Raptors and scored 19 points, tying a career high with 12 assists.

Rookie forward Paul Zipser, meanwhile, is still in a walking boot after suffering a left ankle injury in the Feb. 8 loss to the Golden State Warriors. He will be out against the Celtics.

Okafor rumors much ado about nothing?

Several days of Jahlil Okafor trade rumors have fizzled out this week. The Philadelphia 76ers have seemingly identified the 2015 No. 3 overall pick as the odd man out in their frontcourt rotation that also includes Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Dario Saric. A Feb. 2 report by CSN Chicago linked the Bulls to Okafor, a Chicago native (you can read our own Stephen Noh’s take on why he wouldn’t fit on the Bulls’ roster here), and USA Today‘s Sam Amick reported last week that the Sixers were having serious discussions with the Pelicans about a deal.

Over the weekend, Okafor was held out of the Sixers’ win over the Miami Heat due to increasing trade talks, and didn’t travel with the team to Charlotte to play the Hornets on Monday. Sixers head coach Brett Brown told reporters that he was held out because a trade appeared to be close, and various rumors once again named the Bulls as one of the teams bidding for the former Duke star.

Philadelphia 76ers center Jahlil Okafor likely won’t be returning to his hometown anytime soon. (Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports)

However, a source with knowledge of the Bulls’ thinking told The Athletic over the weekend that the Bulls don’t have serious interest in Okafor and weren’t involved in the latest round of trade talks.

Now, there is doubt as to how real any of these talks even were. The Ringer‘s Kevin O’Connor relayed speculation around the league that Sixers president Bryan Colangelo held Okafor out of the two games this weekend to drum up interest on the trade market, a move that has apparently backfired. Okafor rejoined the Sixers in Boston on Wednesday ahead of their matchup with the Celtics.

However this bizarre situation shakes out, it doesn’t appear likely that Okafor will end up in Chicago anytime soon.

Felicio continues to impress in increased role

One of the few bright spots in an up-and-down Bulls season has been the emergence of undrafted Brazilian Cristiano Felicio as a reliable backup center. He put up 10 points and grabbed six rebounds in 27 minutes in the win over the Raptors and has responded well to an increased role, impressing with his energy and mobility.

“I think the sky’s the limit for Cris,” Hoiberg said. “He’s a guy, just the way he moves his feet for somebody that size, it allowed us to switch up our ball screen coverage. Especially the first time we played Toronto, Cris was a big part of our victory because he was able to get out and blitz the ball screen and get the ball out of the guard’s hands, which you have to do against that Toronto team, make their bigs make plays; and I thought Cris was terrific all game long in doing that. He’s getting more comfortable on the offensive end. I think he’s built a nice chemistry with Dwyane and with Rajon [Rondo] in that second group; picking and choosing his times to roll to the rim and also finding guys on the perimeter. He’s built a nice chemistry with Doug as well, trying to find him with screens coming down in transition. The big thing is you can see he’s getting more comfortable every time he’s out there. He’s a big part of this team.”

His veteran teammates are impressed, too.

“I’ve seen nothing but great things from him, honestly,” Lopez said. “Every time he’s inserted into the lineup he does really great things for our squad.”