The Chicago Bulls are on a lowly road to irrelevancy. After starting the year 5-0, they continued to 8-6, but they've now dropped four of their last five games, landing at 9-10. This is their first time below .500 on the season, and they find themselves in the 10th seed in the Eastern Conference. This would result in a fourth consecutive NBA Play-In Tournament bid, having fallen short of a playoff berth in the last three years. If Chicago were to repeat the same result from each of the previous three campaigns, profound changes would need to be addressed. Tonight's third consecutive abysmal loss triggered one potential trade to gain momentum.
Nikola Vucevic Needs To Be Traded
The Bulls went from bad to worse this week. They've now lost to the New Orleans Pelicans, who had two wins headed into the game Monday, the Charlotte Hornets, who boasted just four wins before last night, and now the Indiana Pacers, who had only three tallies in the win column heading into tonight's matchup. They helped snap a nine-game losing streak for the Pelicans and a seven-game losing streak for the Hornets. With things changing course so rapidly in Chicago, significant changes may follow their tanking ways.
After their 6-1 start to the season, the Bulls are 3-8 since.
— Evan Sidery (@esidery) November 29, 2025
If Chicago continues to fall off, rival teams will begin to inquire on the possibility of acquiring Nikola Vucevic.
Almost traded last year, Vucevic has yearned to finish his career on a true title-contending team. pic.twitter.com/ckBOAos6cy
if there was ever a game to demonstrate why the Bulls should move on from Vucevic it’s probably this one
— Ross Pins (@chisportsross) November 30, 2025
The big man has been exposed as one of the worst rim protectors in the league, his three-point shooting has tapered off after a hot start, and his inability to defend at any level has become a glaring issue for the Bulls. The last hope for Chicago is that he can have a solid final month of the 2025 calendar year and present himself as a suitable trade candidate for a championship-contending destination.
Going Full Rebuild Mode
The Chicago Bulls should complete what they started this offseason and embark on a full-scale rebuild. Several of the early-season contributors have since regressed to the mean, including Vucevic, Patrick Williams, and Matas Buzelis. The time to cut ties with several assets who haven't proven worthy of NBA minutes has arrived. This roster needs an overhaul in the worst way and desperately needs to add size in the near future. Buzelis and Williams are both true small forwards who are playing power forward due to a lack of overall size in the organization, and Vucevic is statistically the least effective paint-pantroller in the NBA. If the team is going to continue losing games, there's no reason to hold their 35-year-old center on an expiring contract.
The Bulls are 4-10 since their 5-0 start.
— Matt (@sixringsofsteeI) November 30, 2025
They're becoming the team we expected them to be, that's ok and I hope the front office realizes what's best for this team going forward.
It's getting increasingly more challenging to watch the product Chicago is rolling out on a nightly basis. Their defense is historically abysmal, their energy and effort are nowhere to be found, and the offensive product outside of Josh Giddey and Coby White is stagnant, inconsistent, and sporadic.
Losing three straight outings to bottom-dwelling teams has put the nail in Chicago's coffin in the early going. What was once a promising year with youthful upside has become a disastrous product that will crawl through another unsuccessful season.
