The 14-15 Chicago Bulls’ 2025-26 season has been full of peaks and valleys already, and it’s still just December! They kicked off the year with a five-game win streak, but a seven-game losing streak brought rabid fans back down to earth earlier this month.
Lately, though, the Bulls have been trending up again. The team claimed its fourth straight victory, a 126-123 road defeat of the Atlanta Hawks, on Tuesday. $100 million man Josh Giddey notched a 19-point, 15-assist, 11-rebound triple-double, the 25th of the 23-year-old’s young NBA career.
© Dale Zanine-Imagn ImagesOn Friday night, Chicago will square off against the 16-12 Philadelphia 76ers, who have surprisingly managed to retool on the fly. Where once the team was constructed around half-court specialist 2023 MVP center Joel Embiid, now All-Star point guard Tyrese Maxey’s fast-breaking offense runs the show. Rookie guard VJ Edgecombe and young backcourt pieces Jared McCain and Quentin Grimes have also become far more important this season than pundits perhaps predicted this summer.
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Not one, not two, not three, but six teams have apparently reached out to Chicago about potential Coby White trades, per Brett Siegel of Clutch Points. Rival NBA executives believe that the Orlando Magic, Atlanta Hawks, and Cleveland Cavaliers might be in the running for White’s services. The Minnesota Timberwolves, who badly need some ancillary playmaking around All-NBA shooting guard Anthony Edwards, would also make sense as a fit. Siegel notes that it is expected the Magic could look to flip backup big man Jonathan Isaac and a second-round draft pick, but cautions that Bulls management is hoping to receive an unprotected first. White, on an expiring $12.9 million deal, has struggled to mesh alongside Giddey during their first (and, maybe, only?) full season together. A calf injury kept White out during the Bulls’ hot start, and he and Giddey have been bleeding points defensively in tandem minutes. “I think the hard part has been Coby just trying to get back and find a rhythm with him being out,” Billy Donovan reflected recently, per Joe Cowley of The Chicago Sun-Times. So with him being out, he and Josh also finding a rhythm [has been tough]. But I think last year, they coexisted very well.” During that win against Atlanta, Giddey busted out his own take on one of the NBA’s favorite disses, the “too small” line of attack. In this case, the 6-foot-8 pro barked that 6-foot-2 (maybe) Hawks All-Star Trae Young was “f—ing tiny” when he scored a triple in Young’s face during the game’s waning moments.Didn't notice this until I rewatched it on the home broadcast, but this is greatGiddey taunts Trae Young, calls him "fucking tiny" after putting the Bulls up 3 in the final 40 seconds pic.twitter.com/vK1twu6HNq
— Will Gottlieb (@Will_Gottlieb) December 24, 2025 Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu recently praised Chicago’s “resilient” roster following the team’s fourth straight victory Tuesday, per Cowley. The Bulls finally are fully healthy this season — beyond rookie Noa Essengue, though the rookie wasn’t part of Billy Donovan’s rotation even before his season-ending shoulder surgery. “This has been about continuing to stay together, continuing to get better,” Dosunmu said. “We understood that [the Bulls’ recent seven-game losing streak] was not the best basketball that we were playing, but we all knew what we were capable of. We put it together and have been playing a great stretch of basketball. Now we’ve got to just keep doing it.” Dosunmu, who missed the first win of the streak recovering from two thumb sprains, has been playing limited minutes in this run. Donovan seems to be prioritizing Tre Jones for now as he eases Dosunmu back. In 15.7 minutes per game, the 6-foot-4 University of Illinois product has been averaging 9.0 points on .478/.300/.667 shooting splits, 2.0 dimes, and 1.0 boards. Former two-time All-Defensive Team Bulls guard Alex Caruso, now hoping the San Antonio Spurs don’t spoil his Oklahoma City Thunder’s bid for a second straight title, lightly trolled his old teammate Nikola Vucevic after the 35-year-old center played his 1,000th NBA game on Tuesday. Vucevic notched a 21-point, 10-rebound double-double against the Hawks, while logging four assists.Congrats @NikolaVucevic ?? Why no assists stat though? t.co/0G2Jpr3sVn
— Alex Caruso (@ACFresh21) December 24, 2025 While the Bulls did ultimately beat the Cleveland Cavaliers by double digits to kick off this current four-game win streak, the team has survived by the skin of its teeth against the Hawks, winning by a single possession in the final seconds of both of these two Atlanta wins. On Tuesday, Chicago began the fourth quarter trailing the Hawks by 12 points, but rallied to seal a late victory. Per Brad Rowland of Locked On Hawks, the NBA acknowledged in its kind of annoying Last Two Minute Report that it botched a call in the game’s final 1.9 seconds. The league now claims that second-year forward Zaccharie Risacher actually didn’t foul White away from the ball. White made his one free throw to put the Bulls up, 124-123. When the Bulls got the ball back, Risacher had to foul Vucevic to stop the clock. Vooch then nailed both his free throw attempts, wrapping up the win.Not that it changes anything, but the NBA’s Last Two Minute Report is out for last night’s game.The headliner is that they acknowledge the game-swinging foul call against Zaccharie Risacher in the final seconds was incorrect. pic.twitter.com/I9Xr99zgiq
— Brad Rowland (@BTRowland) December 24, 2025 Former Bulls reserve point guard Cameron Payne, who only started to become a valuable NBA player on the Phoenix Suns years later, is continuing his basketball journey abroad after a surprising 10 pro seasons. Serbian club KK Partizan announced in a press statement that it had inked Payne to a deal for the rest of 2025-26. The Belgrade-based EuroLeague squad joined Payne after he washed out of the Indiana Pacers’ preseason roster. The lottery pick that the Bulls flipped for Vucevic, Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter, continues to build a solid career for himself with his new club. The 6-foot-10 Duke product, 26, has been averaging a career-best 53.7 percent shooting from the field and 41.4 percent from long range, along with 7.5 boards, 2.0 dimes, 0.7 steals, and 0.7 blocks for the 17-13 Magic. “That’s just who we want him to be — just aggressive, shooting the 3, getting to the rim, rebounding on the boards and defending,” Orlando All-Star forward Paolo Banchero informed Jason Beede of The Orlando Sentinel.MORE BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
Chicago Blackhawks prospects AJ Spellacy (USA), Anton Frondell (Sweden), and Václav Nestrašil (Czechia) are all angling to make noise at this year’s World Junior Championship. The Chicago Cubs have been urged to add enticing free agents Tatsuya Imai and Kazuma Okamoto this year. Chicago Bears special teams standout Josh Blackwell (illness) didn’t practice with the squad Thursday, as the team looks to secure a top playoff seed by besting the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.Hence then, the article about coby trade chatter ayo talks health giddey vs trae and other bulls bullets was published today ( ) and is available on Bleacher Nation ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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