The Chicago Bulls had a 4.5% chance of winning the top pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, and while they didn\u2019t get that pick, they did move way up in the order.<\/p>\n
The Bulls had the ninth-best odds overall to win the top pick, but things broke in their favor, and they moved into the top-four of the selection process conducted by the NBA on Sunday.<\/p>\n
As a result, the Bulls will pick No. 4 in the June draft, while the Washington Wizards won the lottery and will have the top overall selection.<\/p>\n
The Utah Jazz will pick second, and the Memphis Grizzlies will pick third. The Los Angeles Clippers will round out the top-five.<\/p>\n
The Bulls came into the lottery with a 20.3% chance of moving into the top-four, and that\u2019s exactly what happened, as they\u2019ll move up in their first draft with Vice President Bryson Graham heading up the team\u2019s basketball operations department.<\/p>\n
Now, the big question will be who the Bulls will pick with that selection. The team has plenty of needs to address as they launch an ambitious rebuilding effort.<\/p>\n
There are some very solid options available at guard, including Illinois\u2019 Keaton Wagler, Kansas\u2019 Darryn Peterson and Arizona\u2019s Brayden Burries, among others.<\/p>\n
The first round of the 2026 NBA Draft will take place on June 23, with the second round taking place the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bulls had a 4.5% chance of winning the top pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,1260],"class_list":{"0":"post-787268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116552191646169292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787268","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=787268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}