Bulls Predicted to Not Do Anything At NBA Trade Deadline

The Chicago Bulls have been in NBA purgatory for a long time. They are a yearly participant in the Play-In Tournament, and they haven’t won a first-round playoff series in over a decade. Part of being stuck in mediocrity is the fact that the Bulls have had trouble capitalizing on the few assets they’ve had. 

Every trade deadline, it seems like the Bulls have multiple pieces that other teams are interested in, and every trade deadline, the Bulls refuse to trade them and end up holding onto their players. 

Grant Hughes of Bleacher Report predicted “What Every NBA Team Would Do If the Trade Deadline Was Today,” and his Bulls prediction certainly isn’t going out on a limb. 

“It's easy to see what the Chicago Bulls should do if the trade deadline were today: move off the expiring contracts of several veterans who will be too difficult to extend and/or unhelpful in getting the team out of the mid-tier muck it's been in for several seasons.

Escape purgatory at all costs, basically.

Unfortunately for Bulls fans, this franchise has resisted a reset for what seems like forever and shows few signs of changing course this February. So if the trade deadline were actually upon us, we could trust Chicago to hold onto guys like Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, and Nikola Vučević—all of whom will enter free agency this summer."

The reason this isn’t a hot take is that this is what the Bulls always do: hold onto their assets, refuse to make bold moves, and make the Play-In Tournament and lose. What should make anyone think this year is going to be different?