What the Bulls should do in free agency

Spending options, targets that make sense, best path going forward

Well, I promised in my last newsletter on Nikola Vucevic’s extension options that I wouldn’t use this newsletter to redirect to my Bulls stuff at The Sporting News. But many people reached out to me asking me to do just that! If that’s an issue, please do leave me a comment as I would hate to spam people.

Here’s my Sporting News Bulls free agency guide, covering what they should do with their own guys and which new faces they can bring in. I’ve also added in yet another plea to break up the core which will go ignored.

If you want a straight list instead, here’s the cliffs notes bonus version of players to target/let go for Noh’s Notebook subscribers:

Point guards: Jevon Carter, Dennis Schroder, Gabe Vincent, Cory Joseph, Patrick Beverley

Backup bigs: Mo Bamba (team option), Thomas Bryant, Paul Reed (restricted), Dario Saric, Drummond

Wings: Donte DiVincenzo, Max Strus, Josh Richardson, Jalen McDaniels, Keita Bates-Diop, Torrey Craig, Yuta Watanabe

Shooters: Seth Curry, Damian Lee, Joe Ingles, Georges Niang, Malik Beasley (team option), Jae Crowder

Advice for own free agents: Bring back Coby if less than $45 million over 4 years, sounds like Drummond is gone, let Ayo Dosunmu, Patrick Beverley, Derrick Jones Jr. and Javonte Green walk if you can replace them with any of the cheap shooter targets.