{"id":787266,"date":"2026-05-10T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787266\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:32:14","slug":"nba-draft-lottery-chicago-bulls-move-up-to-land-no-4-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787266\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA draft lottery: Chicago Bulls move up to land No. 4 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls just landed the first win of the Bryson Graham era without playing a single game.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls jumped five spots in the NBA draft lottery to land the No. 4 pick, a position that will give them a shot at a top-rated star in one of the deepest classes in recent history. The Bulls had a 20.3% chance of moving up to receive one of the top four selections, and those odds fell in their favor Sunday at Navy Pier.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Wizards landed the No. 1 pick, followed by the Utah Jazz and Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/06\/chicago-bulls-bryson-graham-introduction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">introductory news conference<\/a> Wednesday, newly appointed executive vice president of basketball operations Bryson Graham acknowledged the need to add star-caliber talent to the roster. With a top-four pick, the Bulls have the opportunity to pluck that type of player out of a stacked class.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a consensus No. 1 pick in this draft, which means any of the projected top four \u2014 BYU forward AJ Dybantsa, Kansas guard Darryn Peterson, Duke forward Cameron Boozer and North Carolina forward Caleb Wilson \u2014 could be available at No. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Graham is known as an elite identifier of talent, one of the main factors that landed him the job in Chicago. The No. 1 pick will offer a prime opportunity for him to test those abilities as he makes a difficult choice out of this elite class.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls also own the No. 15 pick \u2014 the first selection outside of the lottery \u2014 which was acquired from the Portland Trail Blazers, in addition to a pair of second-rounders (Nos. 38 and 56). This slew of picks will provide the foundation for the team\u2019s rebuild under Graham.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA draft will take place June 23-24 at the Barclays Center in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls just landed the first win of the Bryson Graham era without playing a single game.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[39022,321728,113403,79659,960,3127,84841,5386,1818,2629,246597],"class_list":{"0":"post-787266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-aj-dybantsa","9":"tag-bryson-graham","10":"tag-caleb-wilson","11":"tag-cameron-boozer","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-bulls","14":"tag-darryn-peterson","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-nba-draft","18":"tag-nba-draft-lottery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}