{"id":117515,"date":"2025-09-03T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117515\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:52:14","slug":"bulls-could-target-guard-depth-in-the-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117515\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls could target guard depth in the 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls are in a strange state currently. After trading away most of their core pieces over the last couple of seasons, the Bulls could soon be facing a drastic rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>The team has been in constant negotiations with restricted free agent Josh Giddey for most of the offseason, and will soon have to make a decision on Coby White, as next offseason he will be an unrestricted free agent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given the financial implications of giving both of those players a massive payday, some are speculating that the Bulls could opt to find a younger replacement through the draft. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25240335-2026-nba-mock-draft-college-basketball-returns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bleacher Report\u2019s Jonathan Wasserman<\/a> recently mocked Arizona guard Brayden Burries to the Bulls for the 2026 NBA Draft, giving the team a lead guard to build around for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 205 pounds, he has a strong mix of size, strength and touch for driving and tossing in floaters,\u201d Wasserman said. \u201cHe does most of his damage at the rim or behind the arc, where he&#8217;s a confident shotmaker but still needs to become more consistent. He should offer enough passing flashes for scouts to picture a combo at the next level. But there won&#8217;t be any mistaking his NBA money-making skill, which is putting the ball in the basket from on or off the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls won\u2019t be competing for the Eastern Conference crown next season, so focusing on the future instead of locking up the uncertain core of White, and Giddey could be a smarter move for the team going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls are in a strange state currently. After trading away most of their core pieces over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-117515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}