[Source](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10058226-nba-trade-intel-three-potential-fire-sales-a-juicy-kyle-kuzma-rumor)
> “Everyone is watching Chicago very closely,” one NBA source said. “They’re so poorly constructed, they need to blow it up.”
> The Bulls made more sense last season when Lonzo Ball was healthy. The unselfish, defensive-minded tandem of Alex Caruso and Ball helped offset the offense first/defense optional Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vučević
> Chicago gave up a lot to get Vučević (32) and needs to win the lottery (top four) to avoid giving its selection to the Magic. The decision to blow it up must come quickly while the Bulls (10-14) are in range of a high pick. Five teams sit on just seven wins—a good week or two could push Chicago entirely out of range. The Bulls also owe the Spurs a heavily protected first to the Spurs for DeRozan.
> **According to NBA sources, the Lakers are interested in both Vučević and DeRozan. If L.A. is willing to give up two first-round picks (2027 and 2029) along with Russell Westbrook as a buy-out candidate, the Bulls may end up in a better lottery position to retain their pick in June. This is the draft to do it.**
> Chicago could also look to move LaVine (after Jan. 15), who re-signed on a five-year, $215.2 million contract this summer. His name hasn’t buzzed yet on the rumor mill, but Chicago could find willing suitors if it made the two-time All-Star available.
> The alternative is losing its first to Orlando—barring a low-percentage lottery miracle—and re-signing Vučević in July. The team would have its mid-level exception (likely in the $11 million range) and smaller trades to try to perfect what many around the league believe to be a low-ceiling roster.
> Or Chicago could divest itself from everything that isn’t nailed down (outside of its young, developing prospects) and start over, which is precisely what many others believe it should do.
Thoughts? The Bulls have a lot of interesting pieces that could get back a lot of picks if they wanted to go that route
by TacoooJay
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NBA rumor mill getting so stale.
Pretty sure this same headline and article was written about the Nets, Lakers, Raptors, etc. too.
Mindless speculation to distract us from the product that the nba is putting out which is the worst sports has seen in a long time
They don’t even have their pick guaranteed bro
Best case they have a 50/50 shot and its probably gonna be lower since its gonna be very hard to outank Orlando, Detroit, SA, and Houston
I think this is horseshit – there have not been any genuine leaks out of this new front office. This article reads like pure speculation.
Well I think this coming 2 months will be huge in determining what we do.
We are better than our record I truly believe. But we are so inconsistent. However, Lavine is regaining his form as of late and we give impressive defensive effort on some nights. And to be fair we had a brutal schedule to start.
If we don’t significantly improve in the standings in the next month or 2 we probably should blow it up. But I think there is a good chance we start climbing the eastern standings with a relatively easier schedule ahead and Zach improving. Don’t think we are winning a championship as currently constructed tho obviously.
Bulls have had the 2nd toughest schedule so far. 18 of 25 games played against teams over .500. Four B2B sets in the first 12 games and six-game road trip that just wrapped up. And they only 2 games out of the 5th seed. The schedule gets significantly easier from here on out for them.
If they continue to be mediocre closer to the trade deadline, maybe someone gets moved but as things stand right now, I don’t see management doing anything drastic.
Chicago’s going to stay the course, make the playoffs, and exit in the first round, just like last year. They are *not* going to blow it up and tank, especially in a year where their pick belongs to Orlando unless it’s one of the top four. And they are better than their record, since they’ve played the second toughest schedule in the league.
They are poorly constructed and need to blow it up to poorly construct the next iteration of the team. Seems like a good idea. What about the management?
I always assumed this team was built just to guarantee a playoff appearance for the bulls. Caruso, Lonzo, and Lavine are too injury prone and Vucevic doesn’t seem like a good fit to be actual contenders.
That Lakers trade is all smoke, media always making up potential trades for Lebron.
They aren’t blowing anything up until after this season.
Every article writer wants to unload westbrook on a team.
The Mavs last night: “you wanna see poor roster construction? Hold my beer.”
So let me get this straight. Lakers only give two frps and they can get derozan and vuc and unload Westbrook?
Do people believe this?
If I’m Chicago give me two frp and 2 seconds for derozan. I need a first and 2 seconds for Vuc at least.
Sounds like the Lakers FO stirring the pot. After this past offseason; why would anyone give two star players for 2 FRP and Westbrick? Lol
Every trade rumour seems to push an unbalanced trade to the Lakers for Westbrick.
Orlando absolutely eviscerated Chicago in that Vooch trade, geez
Everybody needs to chill. We’ve had the hardest schedule in the league, waiting for our starting pg to get back and our franchise guy is still playing his way back to form after recovering from knee surgery. If this were any other team outside of the Lakers, no one would think this is a good trade idea because it isn’t. I’m down to trade DeMar and Vuc and pretty much anyone but certainly not for what the Lakers have to offer. None of this helps us immediately or in the near future. I think we should stay the course and blow it up over the summer if it doesn’t work out.
Should trade all for Wemby
I’m tired of reading Lakers propaganda.
This shit is so dumb. No way the bulls rip the team apart this season without a first round pick. I could see maybe trading derozan in the offseason if we miss the playoffs, but right now would be premature
I wonder if this NBA source is Rob Pelinka. Like even if you agree that the Bulls should blow it up rather than stick it out for one more year why trade for WB and a couple of firsts that have dubious value? There are way better trade partners who would take guys like DeMar and Vooch and actually give them a return of players who can actually help the team now or have picks that would be used much sooner.
The NBA media has to stop carrying water for the Lakers. It’s so transparently obvious.
Yeah bet the Lakers would love that trade😂
They need to blow it up just enough to be say, the 5th worst team in the league.
We can’t blow it up this year, because we only keep our pick if it lands in the top4. Plus, it’s easy for the organisation to justify not blowing it up this year with the possibility of returning to the level of last year when everyone was healthy.
If we’re bad by the trade deadline we’ll shop Vucevic, but I don’t see the front office deciding to go into the tank, unless Lonzo straight up retires.
Why does the general consensus seem to be the Bulls are terrible? They’ve got a positive netRTG on a really tough schedule so far.
And the construction of the team relied super heavily on Lonzo, shit didn’t go well. It’d be like if Smart got hurt on last years Celtics team. The key guard POA defender and the only person really capable of running point.
They’ve lost 4 games where they’ve been leading in the final 90 seconds. They’ve beaten Bostonx2, Milwaukee, Brooklyn, Miami, and Toronto. They’re going to make the play-in.
Fuck you
I don’t think they are that poorly constructed I just think they really need that unselfish ball movement type PG in Ball to make it work.
I know blowing out Dallas without Luka means nothing but this is a weird time to bring this up. Wait until we lose to Detroit or something.
Why does every single article seem like it was written by Rob Pelinka?
This is all a media narrative to get teams to trade with the lakers in an attempt to make them better. 🤪