With training camp beginning next month and free agency hitting a dry spot, making a trade may be the best and most efficient way for teams to improve their roster ahead of the 2022-23 season.
For the Chicago Bulls, they’re essentially bringing back the same core from last season along with the additions of veterans Goran Dragic and Andre Drummond.
Bleacher Report’s Zack Buckley put together one trade for each NBA team to help improve their roster prior to training camp. For Chicago, Buckley has the Bulls acquiring Isaac Okoro from the Cavaliers for Coby White, 2026 second-round pick, and a 2027 second-round pick.
Buckley:
There were multiple reasons why Chicago’s 2021-22 campaign veered off course, but the simplest is this: The defense completely fell apart. Between October and December, Chicago went 23-10 and had the Association’s 10th-best defense. From that point forward, though, the Bulls were just 23-26 and plummeted to 27th in defensive efficiency.
Adding a tenacious defensive presence like Okoro could help safeguard Chicago from a similar free-fall. In fact, the Bulls could get plenty disruptive on defense in lineups featuring him, Lonzo Ball, Alex Caruso and Patrick Williams.
Okoro needs to find some offense to stick in this league, but it makes more sense for the Bulls to take that gamble and potentially solve a need than it does to keep another score-first player like White around. Conversely, Cleveland might prefer White’s scoring punch over Okoro’s stopping skills, particularly if the Cavs don’t plan on re-signing Collin Sexton.
Acquiring Okoro would be a homerun for the Bulls. Okoro’s versatility on the defensive end alongside Lonzo Ball, Alex Caruso, and Patrick Williams would form an elite rotation of versatile defenders.
The price to acquire Okoro in this proposed trade is very team friendly. Coby White has been rumored to be on the trade block for months so if the Bulls can swap White, who they don’t seem to plan on extending along with two future second-rounders — that’s a steal.
Now, that would mean the Cavaliers would sign off on this swap, which looking at the proposed parameters of this trade, seems unlikely with the upside of Okoro.
Whether it’s Okoro or another player, adding versatile two-way wing depth for the Bulls would enhance their roster mightily.
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