{"id":91450,"date":"2025-08-20T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91450"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:27:57","slug":"bulls-nikola-vucevic-calls-out-nonsense-rumors-surrounding-his-future-with-the-team-denies-any-truth-to-speculation-about-his-departure-from-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91450","title":{"rendered":"Bulls&#8217; Nikola Vucevic Calls Out &#8216;Nonsense&#8217; Rumors Surrounding His Future with the Team, Denies Any Truth to Speculation About His Departure from Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Nikola-Vucevic_af245e.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vucevic (9) handles the ball against the Atlanta Hawks in the fourth quarter at State Farm Arena.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There have been a lot of trade rumors surrounding Chicago Bulls players this offseason, but so far, the team has been relatively quiet. The Bulls were expected to make more noise, but like most years, the moves that people expected haven&#8217;t happened. Nikola Vucevic has been at the center of these offseason rumors, but he is still a Bull. When last season ended, it seemed like a certainty that he would be traded, but now it sounds like he will start the upcoming season in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Vucevic seems like the perfect trade candidate for the Bulls, but it hasn&#8217;t happened. The rumors were loud, and Vucevic heard them. He was always confident that he would return to Chicago, and it was nice to get some reassurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA week ago (the interview was done August 4), the Bulls GM (Marc Eversley), who had called me after all the rumors, confirmed that nothing was true and that everything we had discussed after the season still stood,\u201d Vucevic said, according to a report from <em>Hoops Hype.<\/em> \u201cI already knew that, but it\u2019s always nice when your GM calls to tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic has been in the NBA for a long time, so he is used to things like this. He knows that it&#8217;s just something that he has to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are always rumors,\u201d he said. \u201cMost of them are false. It\u2019s a bit of nonsense. For example, the buyout story was misunderstood in Europe: the journalist wrote that if there was no trade during the season, there might be a buyout option before the deadline. I know how the business works: in the last year of a contract, there\u2019s always speculation. Since I can\u2019t control it, I try not to stress over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The season is coming up in just a couple of months, and Vucevic fully expects that he will be with the Bulls when it begins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I have almost no doubt,\u201d Vucevic said. \u201cThat\u2019s the mindset I\u2019m preparing with. After that, we\u2019ll see\u2014I don\u2019t know what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Vucevic might start the season with the Bulls, but like he said, who knows what will go down after that. At the end of the day, he is still a good trade candidate for Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vooch is used to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":91455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,45,527],"class_list":["post-91450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-nba","tag-nikola-vucevic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulls&#039; Nikola Vucevic Calls Out &#039;Nonsense&#039; Rumors Surrounding His Future with the Team, Denies Any Truth to Speculation About His Departure from Chicago - 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=91450\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulls&#039; 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