3 trades the Chicago Bulls made unnecessary gambles on

In the last 20 years, the Chicago Bulls had their fair share of good and bad moves under two different front office regimes.

Since the turn of the century, what were the biggest mistakes that the Chicago Bulls made overall?

Most Bulls fans would likely have a laundry list of answers to that question, as some of their more notable free agent signings, draft picks, and trades pulled off didn’t have the greatest results of late. But there were some good moves that the Bulls front office made too in the last 20 years.

At least at the beginning of the tenure in the Windy City under the direction of former vice president of basketball operations John Paxson and general manager Gar Forman, there were good moves that the Bulls made to elevate their contender status. In the mid-2000’s the famed “baby Bulls” did take this franchise to new level that hadn’t been seen since the end of the Michael Jordan-era in the late 1990’s.

Behind building up good draft picks like guards Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich, along with forwards and bigs like Luol Deng and Joakim Noah, the Bulls were elevated to new heights quickly in the mid-2000’s. But that run of success behind that core along with former superstar point guard Derrick Rose came to an end in the mid-2010’s.

After the Bulls tried their hand at the latest rebuild, things started to fall apart. GarPax would be let go earlier this offseason and the frustration continued to mount with the moves that the latest front office regime made since the beginning of the rebuild.

Here’s a look back at some of the mistakes that the Bulls made in terms of bad trades and unnecessary gambles on the trade market since 2000.