The Chicago Bulls season ended predictable on Wednesday in the game, when Miami's warmth kicked the teethAnd that's all she wrote in a season that has always proven to be incoherent, without any organizational path sign.
The team exchanged the old All-Star Zach Lavine on the deadline, deciding to empower the offseason Josh Giddey and the Coby White already established. The result was a modest bump in the dead months of March and April, and the management of the Bulls seems ready to invest in Giddey after the Australian posted many games with solid raw statistics.
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But the Bulls were not proactive on the deadline with a major contractual problem involving White, which can leave as a free agent in 2026, which means that many questions will hang around the 6 -foot 5 inch guys throughout next season.
Bulls Nikola Vučević and Josh Giddey saw their season end against Miami Heat on Wednesday at the United Center. (Photo of Melissa Tamez / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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A player who is under long -term contract is the old choice of lottery Patrick Williams, who signed a five -year contract at the last value of the offseason worth $ 90 million. The 6 -foot -8 -inch striker responded to this vote of confidence by making an average of nine points and 3.8 rebounds and connecting to 39.7% of his shots, which makes Bulls difficult to rotate him this summer.
Unsurprisingly, Chicago has happened again in mediocrity, and it is despite a very improved shooting profile that saw the Bulls take more than 3 than at any other moment in the history of franchise and generally play a more modern offensive style style.
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Now the emphasis is on offison, which could be just as difficult, since the executive vice-president of Basketball Operations Arturas Karnišovas thinks that the future of Chicago should consist of having “nine to 10 very good players” while minimizing the need for a real franchise star.
Good luck with that.
Record 2024-25: 39-43
Presentation of the season
The game of recruit Matas Buzelis, who has a real upward star. The 6 -foot 10 -inch striker is completely intrepid and extremely athletic and turned out to be a much better shooter than we did originally.
Greater need
Let's not be beaten around the bush. Chicago's unworthowing plan – if you can even call it – has no merit in reality, so the greatest need for Bulls, this off -season is change. Change of property, which continues to empower the low before low offices. Change of management, which has no feeling of progressive creativity. Change in each branch of the organizational tree is radically necessary.
Played draft choice (pre-Lottery)
N ° 13 and 45
Development project
The Bulls have obtained a good one in Buzelis, and now the mission should be obvious: add another player of quality similar to associate with the explosive front. The project is the only place where the luck of the lottery could force its hand in a complete reconstruction, which is very necessary. Bulls are simply not able to allow themselves to think of players with specific skills in the project. They just need talent, a complete stop.
Key -free agents
Josh GIDGE (RFA)
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Three Jones (UFA)
Wage distribution
The Bulls are historically excellent to avoid the luxury tax, the ceiling should be $ 154.6 million next season, and they are in a potentially interesting situation with regard to Giddey, which is likely to ask for the moon after having accumulated seven triple-doubles over the season.
Can Bulls offer an agreement in the range of $ 30 million a year while clinging to Williams, Nikola Vučević and Lonzo Ball, to go in 2026, you have to offer White an agreement that will probably start in the range of $ 35 million per year?
Finally, something should give if the organization wishes to avoid the tax again.
The goal of next season
Another series of exciting NBA game competitions?
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Aside, the Bulls are likely to try the impossible, which is to build from the middle, so the objective will be to identify the hidden value in each external acquisition to optimize their path to a real berth in the playoffs in 2026. Unfortunately for the Bulls, there are many more intelligent offices which will probably locate the players of value long before they arrive on the chicago radar.
Have a seat, bulls fans. You could be in a few years of deafening mediocrity.
