This Bulls season apparently is all about grabbing the eighth playoff spot, maybe the seventh, but some kind of playoff spot, no matter how low that bar is for a franchise that owns six NBA Championship trophies.

Some people will tell you that drive for the playoffs is fueled by corporate sponsors who won’t pony up cash if the Bulls were to try to rebuild the right way instead of claiming to compete while rebuilding a young core, which is so lame that even the White Sox dumped that idea, and how slow are Chairman Reinsdorf’s franchises to ditch the stupid?

But money talks and common sense walks, so instead of shooting for the lottery, the Bulls are following a plan that puts them farther from a title.

So, if it’s sponsors who are dictating things, then the Bulls are perfect for Southwest Airlines:

“Wanna get away?"

Yes and yes. Yes from the Bulls and yes from us.

The Bulls must want to get out of here after their clown show last week and we certainly want them to get out and take their red noses with them.

Unfortunately for both them and us, the Bulls will return to this city to continue to play fans for suckers, but you know what? There’s no better time for the Bulls to get out of town, no matter how murderous this six-game trip looks.

The Bulls start in Oklahoma City on Wednesday and then hit Houston. They also face Golden State. Yeah, it looks like suicide. But this trip also includes games against the playoff-challenged Kings, Suns and Timberwolves, and there are no back-to-backs.

Most importantly, the Bulls will get away from the city where they exposed themselves as dysfunctional and embarrassing. That’s the value of this schedule. They embark on a trip that can draw them together. The media will be smaller. The questions will be fewer. The comparative isolation can have spa-like results. It has happened with other teams. It could happen with the Bulls.

Or we could find out they’re more poisoned than we thought, and we already think they’re a toxic waste dump in which alleged leaders act like divas and the coach is a footwipe who desperately has to defend against the idea that he’s a footwipe while management wonks say childish acts by the players are “unacceptable’’ but refuse to answers questions about how unacceptable their total product is.

So, the opportunity exists that this trip could help the Bulls surprise people by winning enough games to avoid being swept by LeBron James in the first round of the playoffs and instead maybe go six games before losing to the Celtics, and that would be so fitting:

The folly of gaining a playoff spot they value because of cash with a team that has zero chance of winning a title and then that “accomplishment’’ ends up costing them a lottery spot in what is considered a quality draft class.

But Stevie Sunshine is here to tell you not to give up hope, and here’s why:

The Bulls still could dump those games in Sacramento, Phoenix and Minnesota. They’ve certainly proven capable of dreadful losses. That could help them slide into the lottery.

There’s also still time for someone to fire Gar Forman and trade Jimmy Butler to give the Bulls a second first-round draft pick to accelerate a necessary rebuild. Without Butler, the Bulls’ pick would soar into the lottery, and like that, they would gather twice the young talent that Fred Footwipe won’t be able to develop into NBA players.

Yeah. OK. On second thought, Stevie Sunshine suggests giving up all hope until further notice.