Chicago Bulls: 3 playmaking PG’s that could be trade targets

2) Chicago Bulls playmaker PG trade targets

Lonzo Ball, Point Guard

A personal favorite potential trade deadline target of mine for Karnisovas and the Bulls could be the former UCLA Bruin and the 6-foot-6 and 190 pound 23-year-old New Orleans Pelicans point guard Lonzo Ball. The former Los Angeles Laker is continuing to elevate his game for the Pelicans this season, and it is going largely unnoticed.

It feels like in the not too distant future that the Pelicans are going to part ways with either of Lonzo or the former Milwaukee Bucks veteran point guard Eric Bledsoe. The Pelicans already dealt out their former standout two-way point guard Jrue Holiday last year to the Bucks, in the deal that landed them Bledsoe, and more movement could be on the way in the near future.

The Pelicans aren’t finding near as much success in the win column as most NBA fans thought they would at the outset of this season. As a result, it feels like it’s almost guaranteed that their front office will be trying their best to make moves at the deadline next month.

And Lonzo could be one of the names that is most heavily shopped by the Pelicans front office come the deadline.

All in all, since the Bulls likely wouldn’t have to give up all that much, and it wouldn’t take up too much cap room, trading for Ball seems like a good idea. Ball would give them a much needed boost on both ends of the floor, and take a lot of the responsibility for distributing the ball solely off of LaVine and White.

So far this season for the Pelicans, Lonzo has averaged 14.4 points per game, 4.2 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1.4 steals, and 0.5 blocks. And he’s shot 43.1 percent from the field, a much improved 40.1 percent from beyond the arc, and 75.7 percent from the free-throw line.