Chicago Bulls: 3 players that will get this team into the playoffs

The minimum expectation for the Chicago Bulls and second-year head coach Billy Donovan heading into next season will likely be to make the postseason in one of the higher play-in seeds. If the Bulls do get the unfortunate seven-seed in the Eastern Conference standings next season, it wouldn’t be the worst thing as long as the team makes it through to the first round of the playoffs.

Yet, this Bulls team has more than enough talent for next season to break the four-year-long postseason drought. Executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley went all out to land some big names this summer to bolster the roster heading into next season.

Zach LaVine and the Chicago Bulls hoping to get over the elusive postseason hump in 2022

The Bulls are clearly making more moves now to make Chicago more of a winning destination than it ever was in the past five years under the former front office regime of John Paxson and Gar Forman. And we won’t have to wait that much longer to see how all of these big moves play out for the Bulls next season.

The latest win total over/unders actually has a pretty pessimistic outlook for the Bulls next season, projecting 39.5 wins for this team. That would put this team under .500 for the fifth straight season. But the expectation should still be loftier than that heading into next season for Donovan and the Bulls.

That just seems too low for the projected win totals for the Bulls next season, given all of the talent on hand. And with that in mind, here’s a look into three Bulls players that will get this team into the playoffs next season.