A former draft pick of the Chicago Bulls from the 2017 class, big man Jordan Bell, just found his next landing spot with the team he originally started it all out with in his playing days back in the mid-to-late 2010s. The former Oregon Ducks 6-foot-8 and 215 pound power forward/center Bell never actually played in a single game for the Bulls.
The Bulls’ former front office regime of John Paxson and Gar Forman were the ones that used the 38th overall pick in the second round of the 2017 NBA Draft to pick up the former Ducks big man Bell. But they traded Bell to the Golden State Warriors for cash considerations on draft night 2017.
That was one of the multiple trades that the Bulls made under the GarPax regime, which became famous for the constant returns of cash considerations.
Meanwhile, Bell contributed off of the Warriors bench for head coach Steve Kerr when Golden State won another NBA Championship in 2018. That was his one and only ring up to this point of his career.
The Golden State Warriors are planning next week to convert two-way forward Juan Toscano-Anderson into a standard NBA contract, and sign Jordan Bell into the vacant two-way deal, sources tell me and @anthonyVslater.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 7, 2021
Former Chicago Bulls draftee Jordan Bell going back to the Warriors
According to a report from Shams Charania of The Atheltic on the afternoon of May 7, the Warriors will be bringing back Bell on a two-way contract after they moved forward Juan Toscano-Anderson into the slot of a standard NBA contract. Bell will be playing for his second team of the season, after the Washington Wizards parted ways with him last month.
Bell was between multiple 10-day and Training Camp/preseason contracts with the Wizards this season prior to getting signed with the Warriors for the final stretch run. This will also be the first time that Bell plays for the Warriors since the 2018-19 season.
Since the last time he played for the Warriors, Bell saw regular season game action with the Wizards, Memphis Tigers, and Minnesota Timberwolves. He’s also been rostered at other points with the likes of the Houston Rockets and Cleveland Cavaliers.
In five games played with the Wizards during the regular season, Bell averaged 2.8 points per game, 3.8 rebounds, 1.0 assists, 0.6 steals, and 0.6 blocks. And he shot 35.0 percent from the field, missed on two attempts from beyond the arc, and didn’t have any tries from the free-throw line.