Luc Longley chooses his words carefully when talking about Chicago Bulls point guard Josh Giddey, not wanting to heap any more expectation on the young Australian still finding his feet in the ferocious competition of the NBA.
He says he doesn’t watch every Bulls game these days – only about half of them. That he hasn’t spoken to Giddey much since his move to Illinois. That Longley’s life in Australia, where he part-owns the Sydney Kings and Flames, takes up most of his energies rather than what is happening on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Despite all this, Longley says he can’t help but feel a connection to Giddey’s emergence with the Bulls, one of the stories of the NBA season. “It’s a little bit of a weird deja vu thing, I guess, seeing him in those uniforms, in that arena, doing what he does,” he says.
Longley won three NBA titles with the Bulls in the 1990s alongside Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in one of the world’s most famous sporting outfits.
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