On Saturday night, the Chicago Bulls pulled off their first trade of the season.
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The Bulls acquired two future second-round picks and Dario Saric from the Sacramento Kings, taking the forward’s $5.4 million expiring contract.
On Sunday night, Chicago came out flat against the Miami Heat. With Coby White and Nikola Vucevic back in the lineup but without Josh Giddey, the Bulls lost 134-91 to the Heat in front of 19,700 fans at Kaseya Center.
Chicago has been tinkering with the idea of trading White and Vucevic, two of a more than handful of players headed to free agency this summer.
The Bulls’ performance against the Heat might speak to bigger issues in the locker room.
Per Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, the team is gaining some discontents who feel Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas isn’t putting together a competitive roster.
“He (Karnišovas) has a locker room that has a growing distrust in the direction the roster is going, he still has seven potential free agents come July even after the Jevon Carter move, and he has a product that remains stuck in the same swamp of mediocrity that it’s resided in the previous three seasons,” Cowley wrote.
“What Karnisovas does have on his side is a Feb. 5 trade deadline to try and right his own wrongs.”
It’s time to ship the discontents out and rebuild. Maybe the two second-round picks could be packaged to help aid in that rebuild.
The Chicago Bulls are broken
Nov 19, 2025; Portland, Oregon, USA; Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vucevic (9) looks on during the first half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center. Mandatory Credit: Soobum Im-Imagn Images
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Following Sunday night’s loss, Vucevic sounded like a broken player.
“They definitely came into the game really physical,” Vucevic said. “They took it to us. It didn’t help that we couldn’t make a shot and they got it going. We just couldn’t figure out a way to respond.
“They took us out of a lot of our stuff and obviously as the game went on they were playing really good basketball. Credit to them.”
Now it’s up to the front office to respond to the locker room. There’s no fixing it as is.
The Bulls have failed to get out of the Play-In Tournament because of losses to the Heat in recent seasons.
After losing two of their last three games to Miami, the group gave no argument to give them another shot this spring.
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