Chicago Bulls: 3 players least likely to be with the team after the deadline

3) Players least likely to be with Chicago Bulls post-deadline

Tomas Satoransky, Combo Guard

The move for Donovan to give the start at the point guard position to the lengthy 6-foot-7 combo guard Tomas Satoransky over second-year point guard Coby White in the win over the Raptors on March 14 proved to pay immediate dividends. Sato did well to elevate the game of essentially everyone else around him in the starting five.

Sato would likely be a hot name on the trade block if the Bulls were to officially shop him as we approach the deadline. There’s no concrete evidence that the Bulls are shopping Sato at the moment, but he’s got a lot of reasons why he would draw a lot of suitors on the open market this year.

First and foremost, he’s got a rather team friendly contract worth around $10 million annually. But only part of that salary is guaranteed for Sato next year, which will also be the final of his current contract.

And Sato is a reliable veteran that is versatile enough to play anywhere between the one and the three. Most of the minutes that Sato got on the floor for the Bulls in the first half of the regular season actually came at the two or the three. It wasn’t until lately that he has started to get more minutes at the true point guard position over White in the backcourt rotation.

The final reason why Sato would be such a valuable commodity on the trade block this year is his consistent production that is a good fit for a number of teams in this day and age in the NBA. He’s shot really well from the field this season (around 52 percent) and from beyond the arc (around 44 percent). And he’s averaged just shy of five assists per game with just 1.6 turnovers. That forms one of the best assist-to-turnover ratios on the team this season.