Chicago Bulls: Zach LaVine has a good take on his contract statusRyan Tayloron September 11, 2021 at 2:00 pm

At the end of the short clip, Goodwill tells LaVine that while he (LaVine) gave him the “politically correct answer,” but that he can “still see the chip on his shoulder.”

LaVine responded, “It grows every year,” with a smile and a laugh.

There is a lot to learn about the Chicago Bulls and Adam LaVine from this interview.

First, LaVine wants to win.

He is more than understanding of the way Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley are going about managing the Bulls. The front office completely remastered the roster by adding DeMar DeRozan, Lonzo Ball, Nikola Vucevic, Alex Caruso, and finally filling the bench with solid role players like Alize Johnson, Ayo Dosunmu, Marko Simonovic, Stanley Johnson, Derrick Jones Jr., and more.

LaVine could not be happier with the way the roster looks. It looks like it has a ceiling of being a top-three seed in the Eastern Conference and a floor of making the playoffs at the minimum while avoiding having to play in the play-in tournament. Any talks of LaVine being unhappy or wanting to leave should be shut down.

Second, LaVine wants his respect.

LaVine wants to be paid in big boy dollars, which he should. The Bulls franchise star put up 27 points, five rebounds, and five assists per game last year. Outside of the main statistics, LaVine shot 50 percent from the field, and more impressively — 41.9 percent from downtown on 8.2 three-point attempts per game.

There’s always room for improvement with his ball security (3.5 turnovers per game) and his defense (career negative defensive box plus/minus). But, LaVine is in the prime of his career and has seen this team at its highest and its lowest in his tenure.