Whatever the Chicago Bulls decide to do at the NBA’s 2024 trade deadline, they should do it with a comprehensive plan for the future direction of the franchise according to The Athletic’s Darnell Mayberry. “The Bulls must operate at this trade deadline with all eyes on the offseason,” writes the Athletic reporter.
“DeMar DeRozan is an impending free agent. Patrick Williams is set to be an unrestricted free agent” he adds, hinting at the needs of a Chicago roster that doesn’t seem to have a direction in mind. “If the plan is to re-sign both in the name of continuity, efforts must be made now to retool the roster.”
“If the goal is to go in a different direction and perhaps rebuild, again, this is the time to act,” suggests Mayberry, and he is not wrong. The treadmill of mediocrity awaits teams who hesitate, and Chicago has already spent a fair amount of this and last season on it.
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“Doing nothing, as the Bulls did in each of the past two trade deadlines, is unacceptable,” writes the Athletic author, and those are words the team’s front office ought to take to heart.
