Chicago Bulls: 5 players the team regrets trading in last 10 years

Most fans hailed the move by the Chicago Bulls‘ new front office to land star center Nikola Vucevic from the Orlando Magic at the trade deadline. It symbolized a change in the way this organization builds out the roster, with a more aggressive stance to try and put the team in a position to contend in the near term, instead of making conversation cash-conservative moves each passing year.

The former front office regime of John Paxson and Gar Forman was one that was one of the more conservative throughout the franchise history for the Bulls near the end of their term. GarPax had trouble making any significant moves that paid off in recent years to start off the rebuild.

AK and Eversley can learn from past mishaps from GarPax for the Chicago Bulls

That is largely why management/ownership decided to move on from the GarPax regime in their front office, and bring some new leadership on board. The Bulls hired former Denver Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas as the lead voice in the front office, and Marc Eversley became the general manager.

In their first year at the helm, Karnisovas and Eversley definitely made their mark in reconstructing this roster, coaching staff, and the rest of the front office/scouting department. The Bulls took a risk by picking forward Patrick Williams fourth overall in the 2020 NBA Draft, but that looks like a pretty good move thus far.

And the Bulls made some very sizable moves at the trade deadline that will be consequential in one form or another in the next few years.

Knowing that the Vooch trade was maybe the biggest since the turn of the century for this team, at least in-season, it’s worth taking a look back at how other deals of large magnitude turned out. Here’s a look back at five players that the Bulls dealt out in the past 10 years that they likely regretted later on.