Nobody knows where the Chicago Bulls are going, not even their President Arturas Karnisov. The Illinois franchise has been stuck in the soft underbelly of its Conference standings for years. This is still the case this season. The team of Billy Donovan has her ass between two chairs: neither too weak to tank, nor strong enough to really have ambitions. It occupies ninth place in the East with a perfectly balanced record: 22 victories for 22 defeats.
But maybe that will (finally?) change. According to Michael Scotto, the Bulls will be among the most active as the NBA trade deadline approaches. It remains to be seen whether they will “buy”, and therefore bring in experienced players to go higher, or “sell” and try to descend slowly towards the depths of the ranking in order to benefit from a 2026 vintage announced to be spectacular.
The second hypothesis seems more probable. Indeed, the “Windy City” team is made up of numerous expiring contracts. The leaders are not going to extend all of these players during the next offseason. Some will therefore leave free. And we can think that it is in the organization’s interest to recover compensation when it can.
The Bulls will therefore perhaps provide their talents to the franchises that are buying on the market. Nikola Vucevic, Kevin Huerter, Jalen Smith, Coby White, Zach Collins or even Ayo Dosunmu will be free agents in July. It is possible that several of them will therefore be exchanged in the coming weeks.
