The Chicago Bulls played little to no part in the turnout of the 2012 NBA Draft. They had a very late pick in the first round, but wound up keeping it. It’s hard to say that a team ever missed on a player so late in the first round of any draft. And the Bulls started looking to the future by picking a point guard they had to hope would be a solid backup for D-Rose.
In the first round of the 2012 NBA Draft, at No. 28 overall, the Bulls selected the former Kentucky Wildcats talented point guard Marquis Teague. There were a handful of picks in 2012 that went after Teague, though, that wound up developing into solid contributors that are still hanging around in the NBA.
In total, Teague played in less than two seasons with the Bulls and less than 100 games in the NBA overall. He played 91 career games and 67 of them came with the Bulls. He also had brief stints with the Brooklyn Nets and only three games with the Grizzlies. He didn’t do much with the Bulls in that time either.
There were only two starts for Teague in a Bulls uniform, despite all the injuries that came about for Rose. If the Bulls wanted to look back and find who the best player they could’ve picked in a realistic sense was, gaze no further than standout forward Jae Crowder. In the 2012 draft, Crowder fell at No. 34 to the Cavaliers (later traded to the Mavericks).