{"id":352820,"date":"2025-12-17T00:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:37:09","slug":"bulls-granted-disabled-player-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352820\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Granted Disabled Player Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulls have been awarded a disabled player exception as a result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/essenno01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-16_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Noa Essengue<\/a>\u2018s season-ending shoulder injury, reports Joel Lorenzi of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoelXLorenzi\/status\/2001002968460746770\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>An NBA team becomes eligible for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/08\/hoops-rumors-glossary-disabled-player-exception-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">disabled player exception<\/a> when one of its players sustains an injury that is considered more likely than not to sideline him through June 15 of that league year. The Bulls <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/12\/noa-essengue-out-for-season-with-shoulder-injury.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced earlier this month<\/a> that Essengue, the 12th overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, would be out for the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to address a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>A disabled player exception doesn\u2019t grant the team an extra roster spot, but it generates some additional cap flexibility. The exception can be used to acquire a player on an expiring contract via trade or waiver claim, or to sign a free agent to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/11\/2025-26-nba-disabled-player-exceptions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025\/26 NBA Disabled Player Exceptions<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The value of the disabled player exception is equivalent to either the non-taxpayer mid-level exception or half of the injured player\u2019s salary, whichever is lesser. Since Essengue\u2019s cap hit is $5,429,520, well below the mid-level, the Bulls\u2019 new DPE is worth $2,714,760.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago hasn\u2019t used any portion of its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/how-teams-are-using-2025-26-mid-level-exceptions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mid-level<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/how-teams-are-using-2025-26-bi-annual-exceptions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bi-annual<\/a> exception this season and also has a portion of a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2012\/02\/outstanding-trade-exceptions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trade exception<\/a> still available, so that modest disabled player exception may simple expire without being used. Still, it\u2019s one more minor tool for the team to work with as it explores the trade market this winter. It\u2019s possible, for example, that the Bulls could create a larger trade exception than they otherwise would have by taking a small salary into that DPE as part of a multi-player trade at the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Essengue, who played just six total minutes across two NBA appearances after being selected in the lottery in June, is expected to be fully healthy for the start of his second season in 2026\/27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulls have been awarded a disabled player exception as a result of Noa Essengue\u2018s season-ending shoulder injury,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,174027,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-352820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-noa-essengue","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}