2024 NBA Draft: Bulls confident in adding impact player

2024 NBA Draft: Bulls confident in adding impact player originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

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Providence guard Devin Carter’s stock is rising in advance of this week’s NBA Draft, a two-day affair that begins Wednesday with the Chicago Bulls—at one point linked to Carter—currently slotted to select 11th overall.

Kentucky guard Rob Dillingham is the name currently linked to the Bulls in the most mock drafts, which, befitting a class loaded with potential but not surefire starpower, are wildly disparate.

In the direct aftermath of last month’s NBA draft lottery, USC guard Isaiah Collier landed in speculation tied to the Bulls.

Notice a trend? All guards, linked to a team swimming in them.

Granted, all of this predraft chatter occurred before the Bulls traded Alex Caruso for Josh Giddey, who will be introduced by the Bulls virtually on Tuesday afternoon. And it’s well documented that the Bulls are shopping Zach LaVine.

Still, for a team that employs LaVine (for now), Giddey, Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, Jevon Carter, Lonzo Ball and a former first-round pick who needs development work in Dalen Terry, guarded optimism has a whole new meaning.

Teams typically get into trouble when they bypass the standard “best player available” philosophy and draft for need. Particularly in this draft, with talent evaluation beauty in the eye of the beholder, a surprising player could be available at No. 11.

Still, in a first round that’s projected to be guard-heavy, it will be intriguing to see what the Bulls do. If Cody Williams is available, he fits the “tools-y” wing that this management regime has seemed to favor in personnel decisions. So would Ron Holland, who, like Williams, is young and needs development.

Other wing possibilities who are projected for later in the first round but could make sense for the Bulls: Illinois and Lincoln Park High School star Terrence Shannon Jr. and Tyler Smith, who showed his “3-and-D” potential for the G League Ignite.

Currently, the Bulls don’t own a second-round pick for Thursday. Last year, the Bulls traded to acquire…

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Publish date : 2024-06-25 15:14:51

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