{"id":59077,"date":"2025-05-06T07:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59077"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:41:59","slug":"bulls-urged-to-make-elite-3-point-shooter-their-top-trade-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59077","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Urged to Make Elite 3-Point Shooter Their Top Trade Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"readability-page-1\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2085312795-e1744904769435.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Bulls Urged to Make Elite 3-Point Shooter Their Top Trade Target..anhtruc.\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"945\" data-img-load-time=\"1139\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Photo by Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Joe could be a smart addition to the Chicago Bulls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Chicago Bulls\u2018 season is over. Billy Donovan\u2019s team was eliminated from the NBA play-in tournament at the hands of the\u00a0Miami Heat\u00a0on Wednesday, April 16. This is the third consecutive season Miami has eliminated Chicago from the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls have some work to do. This season was always going to be about getting younger and developing talent. Moving on from\u00a0Zach LaVine\u00a0certainly helped the Bulls pivot toward their new goals. Now, the front office must use a calculated approach as it continues retooling the roster.<\/p>\n<p>If Chicago plans on dipping its toes into the trade market this season, finding some reliable floor spacers must be high on the agenda.\u00a0Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report\u00a0believes that\u00a0Isaiah Joe\u00a0of the\u00a0Oklahoma City Thunder\u00a0should be among the Bulls\u2019 top trade targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsaiah Joe ranks favorably among the best spacers in basketball,\u201d Buckley reasoned. \u201cSince becoming a rotation regular in 2022-23, he has averaged 2.2 triples with a 41.2 percent splash rate. And he provides all that net-shredding while also being a competent and pesky player at the defensive end. If he sounds like someone the Thunder should keep, that\u2019s because he probably is\u2026.There\u2019s a scenario in which Oklahoma City convinces itself it can find an even cheaper version of Joe, a cost-cutting measure to prepare for the upcoming paydays to Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe already knows how to operate in a rotation led by\u00a0Josh Giddey. The pair played together during Giddey\u2019s tenure with the Thunder. As such, Joe would likely form a fearsome partnership with the Bulls\u2019 star guard, assuming he re-signs in the summer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Bulls Are Embracing a Sustainable Rebuild<\/h2>\n<p>Joe isn\u2019t the most glamorous addition, but he would be a genuine floor-raiser for Donovan\u2019s roster. Acquiring the sharpshooter is the type of move teams make when they\u2019re serious about building a sustainable contender that can develop over time.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent mailbag article from Sam Smith of NBA.com, the Bulls insider noted how the front office is approaching this rebuild with the future at the forefront of their decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bulls seem pretty done with the big-time-free-agent Alpha route and Big Three makeup,\u201d\u00a0Sam Smith wrote in a recent mailbag for NBA.com.\u00a0\u201c\u2026But since the Vu\u010devi\u0107 trade it seems like the Bulls have decided, especially with the urgency in the LaVine trade to get their own daft pick back, that the future will be more about using their own picks in an organic improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I doubt the Bulls endanger that by trying to make a move to win once\u2014or get to sixth\u2014than gradually building upon what they have. It\u2019s difficult, but it seems like they are going to pursue sustainability over the spectacular. A lot of teams like Philadelphia recently won the offseason; it\u2019s not as valid a route anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a rebuild of this nature will take longer to come to fruition, it does provide the fanbase with trust in the knowledge that the current leadership team has learned from its previous mistakes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Nikola Vucevic Could Stay With Bulls<\/h2>\n<p>Every rebuilding team needs one or two veterans, either on the court or in the locker room. It would appear that\u00a0Nikola Vucevic\u00a0wants to be one of those veterans for the Bulls. The floor-spacing big man will be in the final year of his contract once the 2025-26 season begins.<\/p>\n<p>According to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, Vucevic would like to see out that final year in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne player who\u2019s suddenly buying in \u2014 and would like to stay another season and finish out his contract \u2014 is Vucevic,\u201d\u00a0Cowley wrote.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s a bit surprising, especially after good friend DeMar DeRozan was traded to the Kings and Alex Caruso to the Thunder last summer, followed by the LaVine trade. All signs had pointed to Vucevic being traded by the Feb.\u2009\u20096 deadline, and when he wasn\u2019t, there were concerns he\u2019d check out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic has been one of the Bulls\u2019 most reliable players this season. Keeping him around for one more season wouldn\u2019t be the worst idea. However, the front office may look to cash in on the veteran rather than losing him for nothing in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the Bulls are making smart choices, and in terms of Vucevic, there isn\u2019t a bad way to approach things. But if moving Vucevic could help land a shooter like Joe, then that\u2019s something they should consider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulls Urged to Make Elite 3-Point Shooter Their Top Trade Target - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=59077\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulls Urged to Make Elite 3-Point Shooter Their Top Trade Target - 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