Chicago Bulls: 4 players that hurt their contract value in 20-21

Entering an offseason where executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley are bound to be very busy, the Chicago Bulls are facing a lot of change in the coming months in all likelihood. The Bulls wound up missing the postseason for the fourth straight year, finishing up the regular season with a record of 31-41 under the direction of first-year head coach Billy Donovan.

While missing out on the postseason again this year was a pretty big disappointment for the Bulls, there is some hope about what’s to come for this team in the near future. Karnisovas and Eversley went out and got the Bulls a legit star running mate for first-time All-Star shooting guard Zach LaVine.

Karnisovas and the Bulls made the big splash move at the trade deadline back on March 25 to get star center Nikola Vucevic from the Orlando Magic in a deal that also got them veteran forward Al-Farouq Aminu. But to get those two, the Bulls had to mortgage a good portion of their future.

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The Bulls wound up shipping off two first-round draft picks, third-year center Wendell Carter Jr., and small forward Otto Porter Jr., to the Magic in order to land Vooch and Aminu.

Moreover, there will be plenty of discussions this offseason for the Bulls (who could be pretty cap-strapped after acquiring Vooch) about who played up to the value of their contract. As with any team, there were some who exceeded their value and made their fans happy, and others that had poor timing with down seasons that are about to hit free agency.

With an important cycle of free agency looming for the Bulls, here’s a look at four players who hurt their value for any future contract with their play in the season that was.