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David Haugh: Bulls season of insufferable losing finally over so focus can return to winning

CHICAGO - At the end of Thursday's season-ending Bulls news conference, John Paxson revealed that league rules prevented Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt - Loyola's lovable 98-year-old team chaplain - from representing the team at the NBA draft lottery.

"We asked," Paxson said.

Just as well to let Sister Jean quietly retreat to campus after a whirlwind month, but asking a nun with no Bulls affiliation to act as their lucky charm would have provided a fitting final scene to the theater of the absurd this season became.

The Bulls can ask Sister

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