Grading the Last 5 Big Chicago Bulls Trades #nba #nbatrades #bulls

Grading the Last 5 Big Chicago Bulls Trades #nba #nbatrades #bulls

Let’s grade the last five major trades the Chicago Bulls have made. So, the first one came back at the 2025 deadline. They finally traded away Zackine. It was definitely a few years too late. They got back Trey Jones, Zack Collins, Kevin Herder, matching salary, and they got their first round pick protection lifted from the San Antonio Spurs. They got Darren Fox. I’m going to give this trade a C+. It’s not a great return whatsoever from Zack Lavine, but at least they actually needed that protection to be lifted because they finished outside the top 10. So, they made a one for one player trade back in June of 2024. This may shock you, but I’m going to give them a B for the Josh Giddy Alex Cruso trade. Alex Cruso didn’t make a lot of sense in Chicago, and if they got first round picks from the Thunder, they probably weren’t going to be great in first round picks either. They were going to be at the end of the first round. Wasn’t a great 2024 draft class. Josh Giddy was a solid player for them last year. Then we’ll go to August of 2021 where they were in a three-team trade with Portland. They got Derrick Jones Jr. and a future first round pick from Portland that’s still lottery protected today for basically Lowry Market. And I’m going to give this one a C. Markin was never going to shine in Chicago in August of 2021. 3 days apart, they went out and got Demard Rosen from San Antonio in a sign of trade. Got Lonzo Ball from the Pelicans in the sign and trade. Those two moves I’m giving them a B+. Up until January of 2022, the Bulls maybe were the best version of a Bulls roster we’ve seen since Dererick Rose, Joe Noah, and Jimmy Bummer in the 2010s. And then lastly, I got to give this one an F. They traded away the pick to Fran Vogner, the pick to Jed Howard, Auto Porter Jr., Wendell Carter Jr. here for Nicole Vuchic and Alfarukamino.

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