The Chicago Bulls are having a terrible season to put it plainly, and it’s only going further downhill.
The Bulls bungled the moves they should’ve made at the trade deadline and only ended up trading away their most prized asset Zach LaVine, for a not-so-impressive return.
To follow up on that disastrous deadline, the Bulls VP of Basketball Ops Artūras Karnišovas didn’t do a great job assuaging Bulls fans of their anger with the front office at his post-trade deadline press conference. Karnišovas still believes the Bulls are a playoff/play-in type of team, and he’s sadly mistaken.
One NBA Analyst also thinks Karnišovas is wrong and voiced his frustration with the Bulls by slamming their moves. The analyst even went as far as saying the team should be sold.
NBA Analyst slams the Chicago Bulls
On his recent podcast, NBA Analyst Bill Simmons slammed the Bulls and their front office for bungling the trade deadline saying “They got nothing for LaVine”.
“They got nothing from LaVine,” said Simmons. “They have no extra first-round capital other than this weird protected first-rounder that they have from Portland that they’ll probably never get. They have an absentee landlord as an owner. I think I would take every single team in the East’s future over theirs. I’d rather have every other roster in the East over Chicago’s. I don’t know what their number one asset is.”
Simmons even went as far as to say that the Bulls don’t even have any “good” players on their roster using a very humorous analogy of the talent on the Bull’s roster.
“Very good to me is like if my son came home from school and I said ‘How did your history test go’ and he responded ‘Very good’ I’m thinking that’s an A-. There are no A- players on this roster.”
Simmons didn’t stop there by saying that the Bulls should sell the team by describing the Bull’s ownership as an “absentee landlord”.
“If I was a Chicago Bulls fan, I would be losing my mind. They’re in the third biggest city in America. The Celtics are about to sell for between $6-$6.5 billion. So the Bulls are ‘We’re somewhere around there.’ So why can’t they just sell the team if they’re not going to run it correctly? How long can you live off Jordan? How long can be like, ‘Oh man, if D-Rose didn’t get hurt in round one?’ That was 13 years ago”
It’s hard to argue with Simmons here, given that the Bulls haven’t been good in a while and haven’t been to the playoffs since the 2021-2022 season, where they lost in the first round. Prior to that, it’s been since the 2010-2011 season since the Bulls made the Eastern Conference finals.
The Bulls are in a downward spiral
The Bulls are having one of their worst seasons in recent memory and it’s only going to get harder once the regular season resumes. The Bulls luckily get a reprieve as the All-Star break is in full swing and fans put all their focus there.
So far in February the Bulls haven’t played well and entered the All-Star break sporting a four-game losing streak. During the losing streak, the Bulls have been outscored 519 to 421, and have only won one game so far this month, which came against the Miami Heat.
The Bulls only have a couple of bright spots on their roster, with players such as Josh Giddey and rookie Matas Buzelis showing they’ll be worth keeping around. Lonzo Ball was recently given a two-year $20 million extension instead of being traded so he will be a part of next year’s roster as well.
Looking towards next season
The plan for the Bulls this year should be to give Buzelis and other young players as many minutes as possible to see how they fare against better competition.
The way the Bulls have been playing and continue to play, they better hope they get a decent pick in the draft, given they’re limited on first-round picks.
Thankfully the NBA All-Star break is providing some much-needed pause on what’s shaping out to be a trying season.
Chicago Bulls rookie Matas Buzelis should have been drafted here, per NBA legend
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