In the final play-off game in the East, the Bulls lost the game 15-1 by the Heat after leading by three points in the final three minutes.
The 10th-placed Bulls in the East failed to do a miracle and officially bid farewell to the season.
The first half of this match belongs to role players.
Heat shooter Strus exploded, shooting 6-of-8 from three-point range in the first half, scoring 23 of the Heat's 49 points in the half.
For the Bulls, Caruso bit the gap for the Bulls, scoring 14 points on 4-of-6 shooting from beyond the three-point line in the first half, helping the Bulls trail by just five points at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Heat's scoring hand slipped, and the Bulls caught up with the deficit, and the two sides tied and entered the final quarter.
The fourth quarter, which really tested his star's qualities, Butler once again proved that he could play a tough game, and he scored 13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 0 turnovers in the final quarter to help the Heat secure the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
For the Bulls, they scored only 23 points in the fourth quarter. Of those, DeRozan scored 9 points, Kobe White scored 9 points, and Drummond scored 4 points.
The other 1 point came from Zach LaVine, the team's titular boss, who scored just 1 point on 0-of-5 shooting throughout the fourth quarter, with 2 turnovers and a plus-minus of -14.
In the final three minutes, when the Heat were playing a climax, LaVine conceded three goals in a row to completely lose the hope of winning for the Bulls.
In the game, LaVine shot 6-of-21, 0-of-6 from three-point range, had 15 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, and had 5 turnovers.
In a life and death battle, a team boss playing such a performance will be nailed to the pillar of shame for a long, long time.
This battle is likely to be the last game for the Bulls, and the team that looks like a decent roster this summer is expected to be shuffled and rebuilt.
The Bulls' disintegration began in December, when Bulls players had serious brawls in the locker room at halftime during the Timberwolves slaughter, and even more serious brawls broke out in the locker room after the game.
The Bulls were only 11-18 at the time, there were many problems on the team, various departments of the team believed that LaVine was out of touch with the entire team, and LaVine's relationship with DeRozan and coach Donovan was very delicate.
The record was poor, the team was full of contradictions, and the Bulls were close to selling the whole team to rebuild completely.
In the middle of the season, the Bulls also broke the jar and did not make any trades.
The only reinforcement in the season was the signing of Beverley, who claimed to kick the Lakers out of the playoffs, and Beverley brought some changes to the Bulls after his arrival, but his individual ability was limited.
In today's life-and-death battle, Beverley, who started the game, shot 0 of 4 and did not score a single point.
This season will be the first time Beverley has missed the playoffs in his healthy career (playing only 11 games due to injury in 2017-18), and his Bulls career is expected to end there.
The 34-year-old averaged just 6.2 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game during his contract year, and his three-point shooting percentage fell to a career-low 30.9 percent for his Bulls.
The Bulls no longer need to keep Beverley, and the futureless team is about to begin rebuilding.
After retaining LaVine for $215 million in five years, the team's internal conflicts have become more and more serious, and the record has deteriorated.
Lavine averaged 24.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game this season, which is not up from previous seasons.
At the same time, he did not assume the role of a leader, failed to integrate the team, but isolated himself and exacerbated the internal contradictions of the team.
For the next four years, LaVine earned an annual salary of more than 40 million.
Bulls owner Lonzo Ball had his third knee surgery in a year in March, after two previous surgeries that had left him unable to recover for unknown reasons.
This time, he had a cartilage transplant in his left knee, and no NBA player has ever been able to return to the game after this type of surgery.
Both Ball and the Bulls are optimistic about a full recovery and return to his career, but there's a good chance he'll be reimbursed next season.
Ball has two years left on his contract with the Bulls, earning $20.46 million a year next year and a $21.39 million player option for the 2024-25 season. At least next season, the $20.46 million has been identified as "dead money" of no use.
In the middle of the season, there were already media reports that DeRozan would apply for a trade to leave the team in the offseason if the Bulls' condition did not improve this season.
DeRozan has $28.6 million left on his contract with the Bulls, and the 33-year-old is averaging 24.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game this season.
Next year will be DeRozan's contract year, and his conflict with LaVine has kept him from staying in Chicago, and for the last big contract of his career, DeRozan must leave the Bulls to find a better team for him.
He still has good trade value, and the Bulls can still trade him for some quality young players, and that's all he can do for the Bulls.
Vucevic is not expected to stay here either.
Vučevic's contract with the Bulls expires at the end of this season, and the 32-year-old could go to a team willing to give a long-term contract or join a title favorite on a low salary.
In his more than two years with the Bulls, his numbers dropped from averaging 24.5 points and 11.8 rebounds per game to 17.6 points and 11 rebounds per game.
At the Bulls this season, Vucevic is averaging just 14 shots per game, 6.6 fewer than the Magic's final year.
At the Bulls, he didn't get the results he wanted, he didn't play the numbers he wanted, and leaving was inevitable.
Including Caruso and Beverley, the Bulls are probably great puzzle pieces on other teams. It is a pity that they have too many puzzle pieces and do not have a real leader at the level of a big master.
DeRozan has proven that he is not a big star at the Raptors and Spurs, LaVine is only an All-Star, and so is Vucevich.
They are all the same kind of people and they can be a very good addition if they have the right big boss to lead the team, but if not, it will be difficult for them alone to take the team to the heights of imagination.
When the Bulls begin to rebuild, the excellent puzzle pieces of the Bulls Supermarket will cause scramble among the teams in the league, and they are more likely to change the league landscape than those who stay with the Bulls.
Gathering is a piece of, scattering is full of stars, that's pretty much it.