Not all NBA teams can start the 2026-27 regular season on a struggle bus and get a glossy sheen placed on their locker-room soul-searching like the Chicago Bulls. Case in point, NBA on Prime’s Chris Haynes reported Thursday that the Phoenix Suns’ locker room is experiencing “growing frustration” in light of an absence of point guard depth to organize the Suns offense.
There is a simple remedy available to the Suns if they are motivated to resolve the ascending angst in their locker room over the lack of a lead guard to run their offense. The remedy is Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey. Pairing Giddey and the Suns in a trade context is not a net-new circumstance in 2026.
Giddey was reportedly a background research target for the Suns during the 2026 NBA offseason, according to Hoops Hype’s Michael Scotto.
Given the fact that Phoenix Suns ownership also has an ancillary connection to Chicago Bulls ownership via Suns’ governor Mat Ishbia and his brother Justin’s minority ownership stake in the Jerry Reinsdorf-owned Chicago White Sox major league baseball franchise, the feasibility of Reinsdorf’s Bulls franchise becoming a serious trade partner with the Suns in an effort to move Giddey can't be ignored.
The Bulls frankly have every reason to engage in serious Josh Giddey trade talks with the Suns. Giddey entered the Bulls organization via a front office regime that was shown the door at the conclusion of the 2025-26 NBA season.
Bryson Graham’s Chicago Bulls front office has no allegiance to Giddey, and four games into the 2026-27 NBA regular season appears to have built a roster and hired a head coach in Tiago Splitter that is not operating with Josh Giddey as an offensive focal point relative to the 2025-26 edition of Giddey.
There’s no reason to delay the teardown anymore
Graham’s 2026 NBA offseason mantra centered on maintaining flexibility as opposed to aggressively turning over the roster he inherited from his predecessor, Arturas Karnisovas. It is time for Bryson Graham to make another decisive trade, like he did to acquire Buddy Hield, and find a new home for Josh Giddey.
Trading Giddey is less about his individual talent or his NBA future. Those points are obsolete in the context of what should be the Chicago Bulls' undisputed priority: developing Caleb Wilson into an NBA superstar. Giddey’s fit with Wilson is questionable on the offensive side of the court, and outright untenable on the defensive side of the court.
The purpose of trading Josh Giddey has nothing to do with upgrading the roster or even maximizing a trade return at this point. The Chicago Bulls simply need to aggressively focus their roster around Caleb Wilson ASAP, and that means the harsh work of moving the old regime’s players can’t be slow-rolled any longer.
Giddey is a fine NBA player in the right roster context, and that context is not the Chicago Bulls.
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