{"id":751284,"date":"2026-06-03T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/751284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:00:16","slug":"bulls-predicted-to-cut-ties-with-3-and-d-top-five-pick-for-lackluster-return-with-lakers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/751284\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls predicted to cut ties with 3-and-D top-five pick for lackluster return with Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/chicago-bulls\/news\/bulls-predicted-cut-ties-top-pick-lackluster-return-lakers\/6b2da547559435cb5895d02c?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bulls predicted to cut ties with 3-and-D top-five pick for lackluster return with Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bulls predicted to cut ties with 3-and-D top-five pick for lackluster return with Lakers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bulls predicted to cut ties with 3-and-D top-five pick for lackluster return with Lakers<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Sporting News&quot;}\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Preferred Source by clicking here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a very busy offseason for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bulls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago Bulls&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bulls<\/a>, with a new front office and a new coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s reason to believe that Chicago can finally get back to being a respectable team in the NBA and, hopefully, start contending sometime over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Holding the fourth pick in the draft will be the deciding factor right now in how good the Bulls&#8217; future looks, though there&#8217;s reason to be excited if they can land Caleb Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of that, the Bulls will have to make the necessary moves to trade away some of their players for future assets. One of those players that&#8217;s now being floated as a potential trade option is <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/6397\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Isaac Okoro;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Isaac Okoro&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Okoro<\/a>, who the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/chicago\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chicago&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> Sun-Times recently predicted would end up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Los Angeles Lakers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> after the draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter landing Wilson with the No. 4 pick and finding no takers on a trade for Williams, Graham will send Okoro to the Lakers for a package that includes future draft assets,\u201d Joe Crowley of the Chicago Sun-Times <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/bulls\/2026\/05\/30\/bulls-offseason-position-analysis-matas-buzelis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;wrote&quot;}\" class=\"link \">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers are definitely in the mix for a player who can do what Okoro does. He&#8217;s not exactly the perfect fit, but he would give them some depth, and there&#8217;s something to be said about that for a Lakers team that <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4139\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:JJ Redick;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;JJ Redick&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Redick<\/a> has already said he wants to add more depth to.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulls predicted to cut ties with 3-and-D top-five pick for lackluster return with Lakers originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,7146,919,329,3824,3891,1661,150,6],"class_list":["post-751284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bulls","tag-basketball","tag-bulls","tag-caleb-wilson","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chicagobulls","tag-isaac-okoro","tag-jj-redick","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116685597772305330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751284","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=751284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}