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Bulls rookie Dailyn Swain is a new man compared to his Summer League

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Caleb Wilson doesn’t just dabble in some light reading of the stoicism philosophy. No, the Bulls rookie is all in, discussing it in length on Tuesday, and going in-depth on the ancient Greek and Roman school of thought that focuses on happiness and resilience by, according to Wilson, “controlling what you can control, and making sure that in every situation I’m kind of above it. I’m not going to let little things deter me because I know I have a higher purpose.” This is really a 20-year-old NBA rookie? It is. So is Dailyn Swain. And a few months ago, the two first-round picks (Wilson No. 4 overall and Swain No. 15 overall) couldn’t have been in two very different places. While Wilson was the talk of Summer League in Las Vegas, Swain was letting “Sin City” swallow him up. His four Summer League games were atrocious and even worse, Swain was carrying his dismal play from one game to the next. Vegas had him in its grips and wasn’t going to let go. He left Summer League shooting 4-for-31 (