Like it or not, the Chicago Bulls are going to be the subject of plenty of trade rumors in the upcoming months.
A quick look at the Bulls payroll shows a team somewhere between a rebuild and competing, which could change quickly with the right trades, something other teams around the league know.
Bleacher Report imagined the top-3 trade targets for every team in the NBA in a recent article and there were some interesting names attached to Bulls players who weren’t Zach LaVine or Nikola Vucevic, though LaVine was mentioned.
I would add teams to each of these players and add a couple of other players to the list of Bulls who could be trade targets of other teams this season.
Zach LaVine
-LA Clippers
-Unknown future desperation team
I recently broke the Zach LaVine trade market into tiers, including teams that could get desperate, and the Clippers were one of them.
But there are others, as LaVine is an elite scorer when healthy, so all he has to do is come back and prove that he is for a trade market to develop.
I could see a team like the Warriors or Heat being talked into LaVine as a way to push them further into the playoff discussion, same with the Nuggets or potentially the Lakers.
The Western Conference will be tough and teams with legacy players like the Warriors, Lakers and Clippers aren’t going to want to miss the playoffs. Someone will eventually bite on LaVine, but there will be other Bulls populating the trade rumors.