As the Chicago Bulls prepare to explore all options this summer, they will need to nail free agency and the trade market. If they don’t, not only do they risk another year of middling success, but they could seriously dampen their future, too. This offseason is crucial for Chicago.
Arturas Karnisovas seems intent on running back the same core, but the smarter option could be to rebuild. At the very least, the Bulls should look into making major changes, even if that doesn’t involve a complete tear-down. Sam Smith of NBA.com recently conducted a mailbag, and one reader wrote in with a wild trade proposal.
The reader suggested a deal that would send Zach LaVine to the Portland Trail Blazers, the third pick to the New Orleans Pelicans, and Zion Williamson to the Bulls. However, Smith shut the idea down very quickly.
“Let’s see, we can add those paternity issues to rarely playing due to injury, (29 games played in the last 164; played in 37 percent of his team’s games in his career) doesn’t seem to take training very seriously as he looked overweight in that soda commercial with Zach, and the torque he puts on his joints given the way he plays suggests a short career. That’s the plan?” Smith wrote.
Williamson’s relationship with the Pelicans is seemingly getting worse and worse by the day. Trading for him could yield massive success for the Bulls if he were to get on the right track, but Chicago shouldn’t jump at the chance to take a risk that big.
