Signed C Marko Simonovic (three years, minimum).Signed PF Alize Johnson (two years, minimum, non-guaranteed).
Signed C Tony Bradley (one year, minimum). Signed SF Stanley Johnson (one year, minimum). Re-signed SG Javonte Green (two years, minimum). Signed-and-traded C Daniel Theis to Houston for $1.1 million cash. and a lottery-protected 2022 first from Portland Signed-and-traded PF Lauri Markkanen in a three-team trade for PF Derrick Jones Jr. Signed PG Alex Caruso (four years, $37 million). Traded C Thaddeus Young, PF Al-Farouq Aminu, a 2025 first (top-10 protected) and a future second to San Antonio for SF DeMar DeRozan (sign-and-trade, three years, $82 million). Traded PG Tomas Satoransky, SG Garrett Temple (sign-and-trade) and a future second for PG Lonzo Ball (sign-and-trade four years, $80 million, fourth-year player option). With jump shooters as their main scorers, they also had the worst free-throw rate in captivity, offsetting above-average shooting percentages. Up front, Carter and Lauri Markkanen never quite turned the corner, and 19-year-old rookie Patrick Williams, while showing undeniable promise, was, well, a 19-year-old rookie.Īs a result, the Bulls had the league’s fourth-worst turnover rate - a common plague of teams with limited shot creation and iffy point guard play. Coby White struggled with shot selection and court vision, Tomas Satoransky had limited shot-creation capability, and the other options ( Garrett Temple, Denzel Valentine, Ryan Arcidiacono) were low-usage role players. Unfortunately, too often, LaVine lacked a second backcourt weapon and had to do it all himself. Zach LaVine made his first All-Star team and cemented himself as the team’s primary offensive weapon, while Thaddeus Young had an out-of-the-blue renaissance at age 32. Some genuine positives helped Chicago get to the point of thinking it was one player away. With light pick protection, Chicago ended up surrendering the eighth overall pick to the Magic and owes another lightly protected one in 2023. The Bulls went 7-15 in the first 22 games after the trade, falling out of contention for even the Play-In. Chicago’s defense, which had been a strength the whole season, immediately went backward in the Vooch era. The idea was that the move could launch the Bulls into what passed for a playoff race in the East, but it didn’t quite work out that way. 
Overnight, the Bulls went from rebuilding to a win-now team. and two firsts to Orlando for center Nikola Vucevic. In their first year under a new front-office regime and a new coach, the Bulls mostly stuck to the same previous course … until the trade deadline, when they struck out of the blue on a completely new direction by trading 2018 sixth overall pick Wendell Carter Jr. 15, we’ll unveil team previews from The Athletic’s John Hollinger, who will be analyzing each squad on a variety of factors going into this season.Ģ020-21 season: 31-41 (11th in East), 19th in offense, 11th in defense Where we left off
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