At this point I’m convinced AKME doesn’t know you can ask for first round picks

Giddey turned out better than any okc pick they could of got

Bulls management sucks but they literally did get a first for Lavine, which is a minor miracle given his contract. If you’re gonna mock the Bulls at least get the facts right

Who realistically was ever giving up a 1st for any of these guys besides Caruso, and the Caruso deal got them 1 of their 2 building blocks

Its fun at to shit on the Bulls for being dumb but they aren’t being dumb finally with their team building

Jerry Reinsdorf master plans to get people to stop focusing on the White Sox.

I mean Caruso is the only player listed that’s actually worth a 1st

Elite asset management by the Bulls. Never disappointing in failure to make proper trades

Genuinely outside of Caruso and maybe Coby/Ayo last year, who’s giving up firsts?

Bulls life baby… It’s ok though… Yuki Kawamura will save us!

Sell the fucking team jerry

Blew up the entire team for second rounders and guards lol

No Kangz re 1sts to Bulls

Classic wait until their expiring then trade them for seconds strat.

I like what the Bulls FO is doing. The worst thing you can be in this league is a treadmill team. They have a few nice young pieces to build around while they tank. 

Buy high sell low is sure to work out soon.

Bulls are the best. Free charity for the rest of the league.

We got to dump Yabu’s contract and didn’t even have to attach an asset.

We got a 1st for Lavine

As long as Bulls fans keep showing up to the arena (5th in home attendance this season) ownership will keep making money and ownership will not care about putting a good team on the floor.

Is it really that astonishing when these players were either on shit contracts or not that good?

Team building is the problem here, the Giddey for Caruso trade was a decent start but idk who we could have gotten a first for out of this group. Prolly Coby over the offseason? Maybe?

GarPax’s spirit is still in that building

That’s franchise abuse

Sadly.

Even Late 2010s Magic has better management.

Iirc, Late 2010s Orlando Magic was able to sell their players Aaron Gordon, Vucevic, etc for future draft assets.

Some of those turned into Paolo, Franz, and Suggs iirc. Or at least part of the domino moves on how they acquire their core.

Yeah but it’ll make things easier for us when it comes draft time and we can just skip day 2 because it’s just gonna be the Bulls selecting guys.

Which of these was worth a first, apart from Caruso? Most of them were bad contracts for any other team.

Tbf the vooch pick is 31 so almost 

Maybe the first round picks are the friends we made along the way

The only player in that group that was a worth a first was Caruso. They got fair value. The Bull’s bigger issue is that they have a shit ton of mediocre talent that ain’t worth a dime

four expiring contracts, a bench player, and one of the most losing max players in the league lol

Huh? Ayo was traded?

This hyper focus on first round picks doesn’t make any sense.

There’s functionally little difference between seconds and what the Mavs received in the AD trade since OKC’s 2026 FRP is basically an early second round pick and the GSW will likely be a second after protections kick in.

Hell there’s a case to be made that the Bulls got more of a haul in picks and young players than the Mavs did in the Luka trade.

Bulls got a First (for LaVine), Giddey, multiple 5+ seconds.

Mavs got a 2029 lakers FRP, Christie, 2026 OKC “first” round pick, GSW top 20 protected pick, gave up a second to Utah.

In summary, Mavs got one FRP, Christie, two essentially early round seconds and minus a second.

TLDR: Bulls possibly got more for these players than the Mavs did in trading away 26 year old Luka!

I will die on the hill that not getting a 1st for Caruso from OKC who has a million 1st picks should have gotten everyone in the organization down to the janitors fired

Eh… I mean I don’t think this is absolutely terrible on the Bulls end. The firsts they would have gotten for any of those guys likely would have been late firsts at best, all with heavy protections. Getting a haul of seconds is not terrible compared to that.

Ga(kme)rPax returns…

The Bulls exist to stay in no man’s land. If they make too good of s trade it’d shift the balance and they’d fall off the treadmill.

The only valuable asset.. nah Bulls good. 

They could trade matas buzelis right now and only get a few seconds at this rate

Well at least they got Giddey for Caruso who is certainly apart of their core and better than a late FRP from a contender 

Can they tank and get Aj or Peterson?

Fire AK

Hey we got many 2nd round picks. That’s progress

the jordan curse continues

Also, why wouldnt they have juat resigned Ayo this offseason?

What a dumbass comment. Let’s single out everything they got and focus solely on FRPs. How can you have arrogance to say this and put LaVine and DeRozan in this sentence.

They could have for Demar but they dont want to take Barnes’ contracr.

We’ll gladly return lavine without picks

What’s the highest amount of 2nd‘s owned by one team? Bulls fighting for the top spot most probably

Bulls are so going to dominate the G League

Tbf they did get Giddey for Caruso and got their own first back for Lavines contract. White is probably the only guy I expected a first for out of the group.

This team has completely zapped my love of basketball from me..

Legit I used to love basketball man

Somebody told him he could exchange 10 2nds for 1st

I think they would have received firsts if they did not wait around so long. The Bulls were widely criticized the past TWO seasons for not making any significant trades, either to sell or buy. And now I think they are just trying to get any value for expiring players.

Hey now, half of those 2nd round picks can be used to get a Jae Crowder!

Really it’s just that they hold onto their players until they aren’t worth a first anymore. Probably could’ve gotten one for several of them if they traded them earlier.

Cause they’re not in this for value, ownership just wants this stuff done for money reasons

They got first round talent back tho in a couple of those trades.

Dillingham was just a top 10 pick, Giddey was 6th and worth it. Demar was a sign n trade. Lavine has a big contract no one wants except the kings. Vooch is the worse defensive big in the league and vooch is 35. Sexton for white is just a wash

Truly hate this fucking team man

Don’t you guys know second is the best and 1st is the worst? Like damn this is preschool knowledge 😤

Have we ever considered the option that maybe the Bulls’ FO tells other teams that they only want seconds?

Pretty sure they they don’t ask because they’d rather get rid of the salary of keep from having to pay the asset 

According to Jensen, curious who from that group would have commanded a 1st? Caruso is the only one and Bulls got Giddey who has been putting up 20-10-10.

AK is still so high off the Jokic pick he doesn’t think he even needs 1sts

Between “Jensen” “Bulls” and “Squeeze” I thought I was in wsb for a minute

Other GMs have a group chat telling each other not to give him FRPs and he’ll do the deal anyway

I would be pissed if my team sent a 1st for any of those guys lol

I actually really like what the bulls have done here. Yes they didn’t get first round picks but they got a bunch of young players who are better than late firsts and have upside. Sexton, Simons, Dillingham, Ivey, Miller

That’s a lot of exciting players in the same age range

Throwing Caruso in here is disingenuous, Giddey is better than a first pick that isn’t a lottery pick in a good draft, they did really well with that trade.

They suck at negotiating.

This is such a rat tweet. Yall would be criticizing them for not trading these guys for future draft capital if they held onto them like they have before. This CBA has lowered the value of non star players. Those future picks will help them facilitate deals down the road.

Can anyone explain to me which players aside from Caruso were worth a FRP at the time they were traded? The Bulls are terrible at trading players when they still have value, but that isn’t what this post is saying…

selling low will do that

Boycott the bulls

There must be a WhatsApp chat with all GMs but Bulls GM, where all other GMs have all agreed to never offer Bulls 1st round picks. 

I can’t believe the Rockets didn’t try to give them a protected first for Ayo. I guess the problem is, we don’t want to give up anybody of value. So no Tari, Bari or Reed and nobody wants DFS.

This is what happens when you hold onto assets too long

Caruso isn’t the same. They literally go Josh Giddey who this sub clowned. Now the dude is averaging a near triple double and a fringe all star.

I like what the Bulls have done. Jaden Ivey, Rob Dillingham, Leonard Miller, and Ousmane Dieng are all very interesting. And they didn’t get rid of anything that is relevant to their future.

That’s what happens when you trade everyone two or three years later than you should’ve…

I mean in fairness, Caruso for Giddey is a pretty great fucking trade.

Most inept FO since…well…our last FO

2 is 100% higher than 1, so maybe that’s his logic.

LMAO, Kings have the worst team in the league with Lavine and Demar, these guys have some of the worst defensive rated stats in the league, Kings ate these terrible Bulls contracts that they cannot get rid of now.

Hey now. The Bears have much needed draft capital. Wait…you said the Bulls!?

And this is why I stopped watching basketball years ago.

I mean, they got Giddey for Caruso. But the rest, yes.

I can relate, I can’t haggle either. I’m like, is it really worth ten bucks?

2nd rounders have lower salaries and non-guaranteed contracts. AK has done his job. 😉

Astonishing that they did not trade the 2025 pick for pelican 2026 1st (likely top 3) and 2025 22 pick. They can’t trade 15 out of the 16 players for even a mid-range first pick. I’m pretty sure I could have found a way to trade for Noa Essengae. As fan how do you move past that?

Trading people way too late when they are about to become UFA does that

Honestly I’d rather draft and not develop second rounders than lottery picks so who cares. Keep em coming

When I think about the major sports franchises in the United States, (NFL, MLB, NBA, MLS, NHL), I sincerely wonder if the Bulls are the greatest missed opportunity?

You have a franchise with a metro population of 10M - the only team in that sport for the full market - who is thirsty for success. Thirty short years ago, we had grandmas who had no interest in sports making ear to ear rooting for Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. The appetite to have, even a playoff contender, is palpable. It is completely mind-boggling.

From the most narrow perspective of profitability, if a billionaire were to come in, buy the team, and turn it around, and even be semi-competent, this person would make Scrooge McDuck money.

From a basketball perspective, it feels like an opportunity to strengthen the East and revive a historic franchise. It’d be great for basketball.

for white and ayo, it’s because they waited until they were expiring. last year, I’m sure they would have gotten a first. definitely were not getting it for Zach, vouch or demar.

I don’t understand their direction. get picks to draft players and when they draft good players like white and ayo, trade them for nothing? then tank for guys like essengue?

chicago is a good market and with all the losing, they have no freaking core. couldn’t they have done something like the wizards to at least make fans excited?

#SELL THE TEAM JERRY

This is why we didn’t sell earlier, even when it was painfully clear we weren’t going anywhere. The value was never there at a point where it would have made sense to trade guys. There’s a point where you can hope someone makes enough of a leap or some team offers an overpay (and in the meantime you just try to get into the playoffs and see what happens), and then there’s a point where you just have to cut your losses.

but why do they have so many 2nd round picks

Everyone knows our FO are chumps.

They simply lack the ability to identify talent. I could turn that team around in 3 years. First, they have to make a commitment to winning. Maybe when MJ buys them.