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    Paul Sullivan: Small egos, high character. The Chicago Bulls may have found a new formula for NBA success with a roster full of players discarded by other teams.

    Doc Rivers put NBA life in perspective before a game last month against the Chicago Bulls. “There are the 1 percenters and the 99 percenters,” the Philadelphia 76ers coach and Proviso East legend said. “The problem is all the 99 percenters want to be 1 percenters, and a lot of them waste their career chasing that instead of having a hell of a career being that 99%.” Rivers was referring to ...
    by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune Nov 17, 2021 4 minutes

    Doc Rivers put NBA life in perspective before a game last month against the Chicago Bulls.

    “There are the 1 percenters and the 99 percenters,” the Philadelphia 76ers coach and Proviso East legend said. “The problem is all the 99 percenters want to be 1 percenters, and a lot of them waste their career chasing that instead of having a hell of a career being that 99%.”

    Rivers was referring to Bulls center Tony Bradley, one of his former 76ers players, who is trying to find a niche in a backup role.

    But Rivers might as well have been speaking of the Bulls in general. This is a team of 99 percenters, players who know their roles and take pride in each other’s success.

    “The whole team

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