It’s Sunday, and it’s game day!
The Chicago Bulls, still clearly without a direction, have a chance tonight to decide what they really are: a tanking team, a play-in hopeful, or something that falls short of both. They face a familiar friend tonight in the Sacramento Kings, a team they’ve made plenty of trades with over the past few years.
Both teams don’t have much reason to win right now, it just depends on who wants to lose more.
© Vincent Carchietta-Imagn ImagesLet’s talk Bulls basketball.
The Chicago Bulls will be taking on the Sacramento Kings tonight, a team with the worst record in the NBA. There aren’t a lot of compliments to give the Kings this season. In fact, if you say anything less than a compliment, you might get an earful from Russell Westbrook. But there is one thing the Chicago Bulls can learn from them: how to tank. The Sacramento Kings will host Chicago without Zach LaVine, Domantas Sabonis, Dylan Caldwell, De’Andre Hunter, and Keegan Murray, players who have all started for the Kings this season, out with injuries they could have potentially postponed, but didn’t. If Chicago does manage to lose tonight, they’ll be right back on the tail of the Memphis Grizzlies for the eighth-best odds in the 2026 NBA Draft. And to help make it happen, the tank commander might make his return to the lineup. Patrick Williams has been upgraded from OUT to questionable, along with Jalen Smith.Bulls upgrade Patrick Williams and Jalen Smith to questionable vs. Kings. Matas Buzelis and Josh Giddey also listed as questionable.
— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) March 8, 2026 Although this could be the last year we have to complain about the Bulls not tanking properly, as tanking could be nonexistent altogether next season. Adam Silver, the pioneer of every tournament imaginable and commissioner of the NBA, recently reiterated that a “substantial” change could be coming to the NBA draft lottery next season. The changes could be similar to the WNBA’s two-season lottery window or even separating records from lottery odds altogether.“That would be a major shock to the system. Not to forecast where we’re going, but I’m an incrementalist.”
He also spoke about how these potential changes come more from an ethical standpoint, tied to the incoming draft class, rather than having an issue with teams genuinely rebuilding by allowing younger players to get more minutes to develop.“There’s been a destigmatization around certain behaviors, and I think that’s a broader societal issue. I think in other aspects of society, the guard rails have come off a little bit.”
I’m not sure under what umbrella the Bulls fall, considering youth development has never exactly been a priority. But they are definitely tanking ethically, trying to win every game, just not having the talent to pull it off consistently.NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston that the NBA is going to make “substantial” changes to the NBA Draft lottery system next year. He brought up the idea of divorcing the draft order from records and even the WNBA’s two-season…
— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) March 6, 2026 The hype for the NBA Draft will only increase starting next week, with college conference tournaments set to kick off, and promptly after that, the NCAA Tournament. March always makes it difficult to focus on the NBA when some of the most competitive basketball of the year is happening at the same time. The best team to watch will definitely be the winners of the ACC, the Duke Blue Devils, who sit first in the March AP Poll. They have a great squad, with one of the best players in the country in Cam Boozer, along with three other NBA-caliber players in Isaiah Evans, Patrick Ngongba, and Dame Sarr. And this comes just one year after they already had five players drafted into the 2025 NBA Draft and made it to the Final Four. A truly dominant program, even after Coach K has left. And that’s because of Jon Scheyer, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and former Mr. Illinois. He was linked to the Chicago Bulls as a potential replacement for Billy Donovan, but no one really believes he wants to give up a job that good for what could be a career-ending move here. However, he did ignite that flame a little bit by having his Duke Blue Devils watch the end of the Bulls vs. Phoenix game, where Tre Jones had a high-IQ moment. So in essence, they were reviewing Chicago film. Something he, and potentially Cam Boozer, could do full-time next season if all the dominoes fall the right way.that Duke education ?? @Tre3Jones pic.twitter.com/EZPhdbA4Kh
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