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David Haugh: Taking Young, the draft's most polarizing player, would make Bulls must-see TV

CHICAGO - Trae Young saved my winter of watching sports on television.

On any given night, as the Bulls and Blackhawks became easier to ignore, I found myself flipping on Oklahoma basketball. I came to know the Sooners' schedule and even taped a couple of games. Bulls analyst Stacey King no longer was the Sooners basketball legend who entertained me most on the TV screen. It was Young, joyfully dribbling through Big 12 traffic and shooting 3-pointers from the parking lot.

Before Loyola stole America's heart last college basketball season, Young

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