The Chicago Bulls have a surplus of ball-dominant guards and a need for more draft picks.
As such, Bulls execs Artūras Karnišovas and Marc Eversley should be talking to teams with draft capital about which of Chicago’s guards interest them.
We know that Zach LaVine and Lonzo Ball are difficult sells right now.
Ayo Dosunmu or Coby White would be far easier to find suitors for, and Chicago needs to decide what kind of return they are expecting for either player.
It would be hard for Bulls fans to swallow trading White, who has turned into a bona fide NBA scorer as of last season. With the Bulls stuck in NBA limbo, however, no one on the roster should be considered untouchable.
Chicago needs to blow the whole thing up, and that could very well mean trading White, but they should be sure to get the best possible return for perhaps their most valuable trade asset.
Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes recently proposed that the Bulls send White to the Utah Jazz, a team with a trove of picks for Chicago to choose from.
“While this isn’t necessarily a positive in a macro sense, the Utah Jazz’s lack of clarity in their direction allows them to onboard a player like White, who fits neatly into a rebuild or more of a go-for-it approach,” Hughes said.
“Coming off a breakthrough campaign in which he averaged career highs in points (19.1), rebounds (4.5) and assists (5.1), White could either be a caretaker for or a complement to second-year guard Keyonte George. It should go without saying the Jazz have the picks to go after whoever they want.”
The next few years aren’t going to be pretty for the Bulls, but if they want to make any progress as a franchise within the next decade, the front office needs to start making moves that are painful in the present but healthy for the organization’s future.
Trading Coby White is shaping up to be one of those moves. The question is whether Karnišovas and Eversley have the awareness and courage to initiate what is necessary.
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