{"id":74924,"date":"2025-07-01T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74924"},"modified":"2025-07-01T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:05:16","slug":"bulls-insider-drops-unfortunate-trade-hint-on-ayo-dosunmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=74924","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Insider Drops Unfortunate Trade Hint on Ayo Dosunmu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2194480001-e1751308090271.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2194480001-e1751308090271.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2194480001-e1751308090271.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2194480001-e1751308090271.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Bulls Insider Drops Unfortunate Trade Hint on Ayo Dosunmu\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Photo by Luke Hales\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ayo Dosunmu, Chicago Bulls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White are both entering the final year of their respective contracts. The Chicago Bulls are unlikely to re-sign both of them. As such, the front office could make a trade before the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>According to K.C. Johnson, who was speaking on \u201c670 The Score\u201d in Chicago, Dosunmu\u2019s name has been the one floated around in regards to trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not heard Coby White\u2019s name,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat\u2019s all I can say. That doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not going to get traded. \u2026 In my conversations with people that I talk to around the league, I\u2019ve heard Ayo Dosunmu\u2019s name way more than Coby White\u2019s name\u2026I\u2019ve got my antenna up over which guard is going to be moved, and I can just tell you from my conversations I\u2019ve heard Ayo\u2019s name more than Coby\u2019s name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White has been one of the Bulls\u2019 best players in recent years. Re-signing him to a longer-term deal makes sense. Between White and Josh Giddey, the Bulls have their backcourt of the future totally set.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Dosunmu is the most logical trade chip. At 25 years old, multiple teams will likely be intrigued by his upside and scoring ability.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dosunmu Most Likely Bulls Player to be Traded<\/h2>\n<p>Bleacher Report\u2019s Dan Favale has pinpointed\u00a0Ayo Dosunmu\u00a0as the player the Bulls would be most likely to trade this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAyo Dosunmu is the best bet,\u201d\u00a0Favale wrote when discussing the most likely player to be traded.\u00a0\u201cHe is entering the final year of a contract on a salary that\u2019s not large enough to realistically extend ($7.5 million), and Chicago has Josh Giddey (restricted free agent), Coby White and Lonzo Ball to populate its backcourt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dosunmu played in 46 games this past season. He averaged 12.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists, shooting 49.2% from the field and 32.8% from deep. His $7.5 million salary could be seen as a steal for a team looking to add a scoring punch off their bench without giving up significant cap space.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Bulls Have a Tough Choice to Make<\/h2>\n<p>During a recent discussion on the\u00a0\u201cChicago Lead,\u201d K.C. Johnson shared his thoughts on the future of White and Dosunmu.<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_eik61oz4z\">\u201cFrom my seat they\u2019ve got to try to look to trade either Ayo [Dosunmu] or Coby [White],\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI think it will be very hard to re-sign both of them after next year when they both hit unrestricted free agency. You\u2019ve got to get out in front of things like that\u2026And, you\u2019ve got to make these hard decisions, because you\u2019re not going to be re-signing Josh Giddey this summer, and Ayo Dosunmu and Coby White after next summer. I just don\u2019t see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mm-id=\"_eik61oz4z\">White has earned a pay rise and a fresh deal with the Bulls. He\u2019s become a core part of the team\u2019s rebuilding process. Unfortunately, that could mean that Dosunmu will find himself on the move in the near future. If not during the summer, then most likely at the trade deadline. Otherwise, the Bulls could look to play out the year and negotiate a sign-and-trade next summer. However, that is far easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Taylor is a basketball reporter covering the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns for Heavy. He has also written for CelticsBlog, USA Today, Yardbarker and FanSided. Adam has a bachelor\u2019s degree in creative writing from Open University. More about Adam Taylor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls could trade Ayo Dosunmu in the coming months, as they look to avoid his impending free agency in 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":74926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74924","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 Insider Drops Unfortunate Trade Hint on Ayo Dosunmu - 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=74924\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulls Insider Drops Unfortunate Trade Hint on Ayo Dosunmu - 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