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Pippen Ain’t Easy’s 2017 NBA Draft Guide for the Chicago Bulls

By Michael Whitlow

Jun 23, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Denzel Valentine (Michigan State) greets NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number fourteen overall pick to the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 2016 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 23, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Denzel Valentine (Michigan State) greets NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number fourteen overall pick to the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 2016 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports /
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With the 2017 NBA Draft just under a month away from now, we here at Pippen Ain’t Easy made a guide of all things prospects and a look at potential selections for the Chicago Bulls with the No. 16 and 38 overall picks in this year’s draft.

For Chicago Bulls fans everywhere, the NBA Draft has seemingly become a night of, “Well, who’s the old guy that’s going to flame out in three years going to be this year?”

In recent years, the Bulls have notoriously taken players with more college experience than say a project with one year of college basketball under his belt. (See McDermott, Doug and Valentine, Denzel.)

Still, with the mantra that became famous from the Bulls’ front office pairing of Gar Forman and John Paxson in the franchise getting “younger and more athletic”, there’s a chance that actually happens this year in the 2017 NBA Draft.

If the end-of-season press conference was any indication of what to expect from the Bulls in the 2017-18 season, it’s the young guns on the Bulls roster are going to get more a chance to flourish. That’s music to a prospect’s ears when you think about it (even if they have to play under a front office that has shown incompetency in recent years).

Speaking of prospects, this guide here is based on the potential options for the Bulls with the No. 16 overall pick in the draft, along with some analysis and a few names the Bulls could be looking at with their No. 38 selection (via the Sacramento Kings).

Featured:

  • What are the mock drafts across the web saying?

  • Louisville’s Donovan Mitchell, UCLA’s Ike Anigbogu, Texas’ Jarrett Allen, Wake Forest’s John Collins, North Carolina’s Justin Jackson, Creighton’s Justin Patton, Duke’s Luke Kennard, Indiana’s OG Anunoby and Australia’s Terrance Ferguson

  • What could the Bulls do with the No. 38 pick?

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