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Before the start of the current NBA season, Chicago Bulls forwards Bobby Portis and Nikola Mirotic did everything they could to sum up the sorry state of the team when they got into a full-blown fight at practice after a particularly intense round of trash talk led to Mirotic charging at Portis a couple of times before the latter retaliated by punching his teammate in the face. Mirotic suffered a concussion and multiple facial fractures and Portis was awarded an eight-game suspension for his efforts.
Things haven’t gotten much better for the Bulls, who have opened up the season with a blistering 6-20 record. However, they’re currently riding a three-game winning streak after a decisive win over the Boston Celtics last night thanks in no small part to the efforts of the two men who allegedly didn’t talk to each other for over a month after the incident occurred.
During the Bulls postgame show, NBC Sports Chicago recapped their performance by throwing up a graphic on the screen. Despite the number of phrases in the English language they could have used to describe their collective effort, they decide to go with the one pictured below.
1️⃣-2️⃣ 🥊 pic.twitter.com/G1LuuBxtev
— NBC Sports Chicago (@NBCSChicago) December 12, 2017
It might not be as bad as the “chink in the armor” headline that basically ruined the life of an editor at ESPN, but whoever designed this graphic could have probably come up with some better phrasing when figuring out how to compare the performances of this dysfunctionally dynamic duo.
With that said, there’s also a chance this was a deliberate troll job by whoever was tasked with throwing this together. If that’s the case, then I would like to offer my most sincere slow clap.