{"id":72457,"date":"2025-08-16T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72457\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T10:11:07","slug":"bulls-have-reportedly-rebuffed-trade-interest-in-coby-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72457\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Have Reportedly Rebuffed Trade Interest In Coby White"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bulls have received a number of trade inquiries about guard Coby White<\/a> this offseason, but there has been no indication that they\u2019re looking to move him as he enters a contract year, according to Ashish Mathur of Dallas Hoops Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI know multiple teams tried to trade for Coby this summer,\u201d an NBA executive told Mathur. \u201cThere was some chatter that he was almost traded on draft night. The Bulls love him though. He\u2019s not going anywhere. They have shot down trade inquiries for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea that the Bulls may have nearly traded White on draft night and have also \u201cshot down\u201d inquiries on him seem to be at odds, but the executive\u2019s remarks may indicate that the team hasn\u2019t been willing to seriously engage on trade discussions regarding White since draft night.<\/p>\n

The seventh overall pick in 2019, White was a regular rotation player off the bench for the Bulls for his first four seasons before taking on an increased role as a full-time starter over the past two years.<\/p>\n

He set a career high with 19.1 points per game in 2023\/24, then topped that figure with 20.4 PPG in \u201924\/25. The 25-year-old has also put up 4.8 assists and 4.1 rebounds per contest while making 37.3% of his three-pointers since the start of the \u201923\/24 season.<\/p>\n

White emerged as Chicago\u2019s go-to scoring option down the stretch this past spring after the team traded away Zach LaVine<\/a>. The 6\u20195\u2033 guard averaged 25.0 PPG in his final 25 outings and led the Bulls to a 17-8 record in those games.<\/p>\n

While the Bulls did well to re-sign White to a three-year, $36MM contract as a restricted free agent in 2023, that team-friendly deal has made it virtually impossible to sign him to an extension before he reaches unrestricted free agency in 2026. Chicago could go up to about $87MM over four years, but White likely believes he\u2019ll receive more lucrative offers on the open market next summer, either from the Bulls or another suitor (or both).<\/p>\n

[RELATED: Hoops Rumors Glossary: Veteran Contract Extension<\/a>]<\/p>\n

There has been some speculation that an inability to extend White ahead of free agency might make the Bulls more inclined to consider trading him rather than risk losing him for nothing next summer, and Chicago may still consider that route before February\u2019s trade deadline. But for now it sounds like the team is confident about its ability to re-sign White next July.<\/p>\n

The Bulls will hold White\u2019s full Bird rights<\/a> and have a pretty clean cap sheet going forward, so they\u2019re well positioned to make a strong offer in free agency, but they wouldn\u2019t have the right of first refusal if the guard decides he wants to play elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulls have received a number of trade inquiries about guard Coby White this offseason, but there has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,8643,85],"class_list":["post-72457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-coby-white","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72457","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=72457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}