Chicago Bulls: 3 trades to move up into the top 2 of 2020 draft

3) Chicago Bulls trades to move up into the top 2

On the surface, it might seem like the Bulls have an even trade on their hands to send the former Washington Wizards veteran 27-year-old 6-foot-8 and 200 pound small forward Otto Porter Jr. to the Warriors for a return of the overpaid former Kansas Jayhawks wing Andrew Wiggins. But there’s a lot more that the Warriors could do to maintain cap flexibility in the short and long runs with OPJ in the mix than they could Wiggins.

And it just so happens that they got enough draft capital from their poor showing in the win column during the 2019-20 regular season that they can make a move like this happen to ship off Wiggins. To get Wiggins in the mix in the first place, the Warriors traded ironically with the Timberwolves to get some future draft picks and send off standout guard D’Angelo Russell (along with a few other pieces) around the deadline.

In this trade proposal in particular, the Bulls are also shipping off their fourth overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft and their second round pick to move up in place of the Warriors. The final piece to the trade deal is the former Arkansas Razorbacks rookie center Gafford, who is the last part to complete the puzzle to get the Warriors to agree.

What Wiggins would bring for the Bulls is a high usage wing that is very gifted physically and hopefully would still be improving his game and overall efficiency. He played in 54 games between his time with the Warriors and Timberwolves during the shortened 2019-20 regular season (starting in all of them).

And Wiggins averaged 21.8 points per game, 5.1 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 0.8 steals, and 1.0 blocks. He shot 44.7 percent from the field, 33.2 percent from beyond the arc, and 70.9 percent from the free-throw line.