Could the Chicago Bulls miraculously win the lottery and cause max chaos? NBA Insider Kevin O’Connor of Yahoo Sports believes so.
It’s Mock Draft season! Just because the NFL Draft is this Thursday does not mean that the NFL can have all the fun. March Madness, the NCAA transfer portal, and the NBA regular season are all in the rearview mirror. NBA Playoffs are underway, and that means that the early stages of NBA mock drafts are being made.
This upcoming NBA Draft is going to be one for the books, as there are 4-5 players who could go in any order in the Top 5. The NBA Draft lottery will take place on May 2, and then we will get an idea of where teams are picking. BYU stud AJ Dybantsa is likely to be the first one off the board, but the team is unknown. Could the Chicago Bulls miraculously win the lottery and cause max chaos? NBA Insider Kevin O’Connor of Yahoo Sports believes so.
In O’Connor’s NBA Mock Draft 3.0, the Bulls win the night by taking Dybantsa No. 1 overall to be the future of the franchise.
“Artūras Karnišovas and Marc Eversley got fired. And Billy Donovan decided to decline his option as head coach. But what really changes? The team felt no different under them than it did with Gar Forman and John Paxson leading the front office. The common denominator: The Reinsdorf family is still in charge. But maybe all they really need is some lottery luck to escape the middle. If the Bulls are lucky enough to move up from the ninth-best odds, it’d be hard to imagine them taking anyone but Dybantsa, who led the nation in scoring as a freshman by averaging 25.5 points for a top-25 team.”
“At 6-foot-9, players his size are not supposed to move with the herky-jerky elasticity that Dybantsa does. He can dunk over defenders. He can stop on a dime and fade away from midrange. And he can catch fire from behind the line too. BYU head coach Kevin Young said Dybantsa’s scoring talent is “in rare air with some of the greats.” Over the course of his freshman year, he began to make dramatic progress as a passer, too, as shown with his cross-court, pinpoint passes to find shooters. But with the Bulls, there’d be less of a need for his playmaking with point guard Josh Giddey on the roster. Matas Buzelis can handle the ball too. And all of them are tall. The three of them would have the upside to become an unstoppable trio given their blend of size and skill.”
O’Connor also has the Atlanta Hawks selecting second overall and taking Caleb Wilson, the former UNC star.