Fans not buying this bet on the Chicago Bulls

I recently had a fan tell me that there wasn’t a single reason to be excited about the Chicago Bulls. 

I don’t agree with that, but I can understand the sentiment, as we are talking about a 39-win team that seemingly got worse in the offseason but still hasn’t committed to a rebuild. This isn’t a playoff team and probably not one that is going to have a realistic shot at a top draft pick in 2025, so it makes sense that excitement has waned. 

If you talked to fans of rebuildilng teams, they’d talk about the future, about young players on the rise, about the possibility of landing Cooper Flagg. 

Bulls fans are sitting around waiting for Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic to be traded so the rebuild can start in earnest, so in reality, the Bulls are year away from being two years away, not an easy sell. 

So it makes sense that fans aren’t betting heavily on the Bulls and that belief in even a modest result is very low. 

Chicago Bulls over/under: 28.5 wins 

According to a recent article in HoopsRumors, which used an amalgam of several betting sites, the Bulls over/under for wins next season is 28.5, more than 10 games worse than last year’s mediocre campaign. 

The shocking part is that nearly 62 percent of fans took the under, though maybe we shouldn’t be too shocked. 

The Bulls traded away DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso and let Andre Drummond walk in free agency for nothing (great move!) but did add Josh Giddey, Matas Buzelis, Jalen Smith and Chris Duarte, which should offset some of what they lost. 

The Bulls weren’t good last season, so is it possible they are going to be even worse? That wouldn’t be the worst outcome, but there are plenty of reasons to take the over as well as the under.