{"id":162884,"date":"2025-07-11T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/162884\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:26:22","slug":"bulls-not-anticipated-to-pay-free-agent-josh-giddey-rumored-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/162884\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Not Anticipated to Pay Free Agent Josh Giddey Rumored Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulls Not Anticipated to Pay Free Agent Josh Giddey Rumored Salary<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Bulls have been fairly inactive in free agency this summer.<\/p>\n

Chicago began its offseason by selecting two players in last month’s 2025 NBA draft, former Ratiopharm Ulm forward Noa Essengue (the No. 12 pick at the end of the lottery) and Illawarra Hawks power forward\/center Lachlan Olbrich (the No. 55 pick).<\/p>\n

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The Bulls’ only free agency move to date was re-signing point guard Tre Johnson on a three-year, $24 million contract. Chicago’s backcourt remains bizarrely crowded.<\/p>\n

For now, Johnson would serve as the Bulls’ third or fourth guard, behind starting point guard Josh Giddey (more on him later) and starting shooting guard Coby White. Ayo Dosunmu is Chicago’s other projected backup guard.<\/p>\n

But do the Bulls really want to commit $8 million annually to someone who’ll barely play? Or will Chicago move on from one of these players?<\/p>\n

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Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey (3) handles the ball against Washington Wizards guard Malcolm Brogdon (15) during the third quarter at Capital One Arena. Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Giddey, a 6-foot-8 pro with plenty of passing and rebounding ability for his position, hit restricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n

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Per K.C. Johnson of Chicago Sports Network, the number projected for a Giddey signing isn’t quite at the initial $30 million annual salary that had been rumored as the 22-year-old’s hoped-for salary.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have particular numbers, other than to say that Josh Giddey\u2019s $30 million per year price tag \u2013 that\u2019s been well documented in media and out there since last fall when the rookie contract extension was discussed \u2013 has not ever crossed my radar,” Johnson said. “I\u2019ve never heard the Bulls mention that number. So I would not expect Josh Giddey to sign a $30 million deal.”<\/p>\n

Beyond the Brooklyn Nets, no other team has the cap room to sign Giddey outright. Could he be brought in via a sign-and-trade elsewhere? Potentially, but there aren’t a lot of destinations that make sense at the sticker tag he wants.<\/p>\n

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In 70 regular season bouts for the Bulls last year, Giddey averaged 14.6 points on .465\/.378\/.781 shooting splits, 8.1 rebounds, and 7.2 assists.<\/p>\n

Related: Chicago Bulls: Josh Giddey Joins Michael Jordan on Historic List<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 10, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulls Not Anticipated to Pay Free Agent Josh Giddey Rumored Salary originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[4102,7,247,920,919,329,10833,3824,963,965,5940,2729,6,2282,952,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-162884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-ayo-dosunmu","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-bulls","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-bulls","14":"tag-chicago-sports-network","15":"tag-chicagobulls","16":"tag-coby-white","17":"tag-josh-giddey","18":"tag-lachlan-olbrich","19":"tag-malcolm-brogdon","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-noa-essengue","22":"tag-tre-johnson","23":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114833888677851718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}