Chicago Bulls: Top 3 players ever taken with the 38th pick in NBA Draft
By Nick Porr
Who the Chicago Bulls can look to as the best players picked at No. 38: Spencer Dinwiddie
A 2021 NBA Free Agent and a player I personally would love to see come to Chicago, Spencer Dinwiddie is the definition of the modern point guard.
Spencer Dinwiddie plans to decline his $12.3M player option and enter free agency this offseason, per @wojespn pic.twitter.com/9QJUN3RlPd
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 20, 2021
Taken 38th overall by the Detroit Pistons in 2014, Dinwiddie struggled to crack the rotation. He started just one game across two seasons with the team, stuck behind the likes of D.J. Augustin, Brandon Jennings, and Reggie Jackson.
However, Dinwiddie escaped the Pistons bench in 2016 when he was traded away to the Chicago Bulls.
Chicago didn’t hang onto him long, waiving him, then resigning him, before eventually waiving him again in October 2016. Dinwiddie never played a game for the Bulls.
However, one door closing meant another opened for the Colorado University product.
In December 2016, Dinwiddie found his break, signing a multi-year contract with the then-rebuilding Brooklyn Nets.
In Brooklyn, he steadily progressed each season eventually blossoming into a starting-caliber guard.
In the two seasons from 2018-2020, Dinwiddie averaged 18.6 points per game on an extremely strong 55.5 effective field goal percentage.
In addition, his passing is criminally underrated, averaging 6.8 assists per game in 2020-2021, as the roster faced substantial injuries to its main scorers in Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant
A dynamic, well-rounded point guard like Dinwiddie is not something you often find in the second round. If the Bulls end up drafting someone anywhere near as talented as Dinwiddie in the 2021 NBA Draft, they will have hit the jackpot.