With the Feb. 9 trade deadline just around the corner, Chicago Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas has some big decisions to make. Should the Bulls stay the course and hope the team shows the kind of urgency coach Billy Donovan has been pleading for the last month, or should Karnišovas shake things up with a deal or two like he did two years ago? What Karnišovas does could be a turning point for the future of the Bulls, who aren’t much better record-wise in 2023 than they were when he unofficially ended the rebuild with a pair of deadline deals that brought in five new players, including current Bulls Nikola Vučević and Javonte Green. At the time of the 2021 deadline, the Bulls were 19-24 and in 10th place in the Eastern Conference, in line for a play-in spot.