The Chicago Bulls made the wrong kind of history on Monday night, when they decided to waive injured guard Jaden Ivey. The former No. 5 overall pick out of Purdue, who was acquired from the Pistons on Feb. 3, was in the final season of his rookie deal. The Bulls waiving Ivey makes him the first top-five selection since Dragan Bender six years ago to be cut within the first four years of his NBA career.
The official rap on Ivey was that he was being shown the door due to “conduct detrimental to the team,” after some controversial recent social media comments culminated in anti-LGBTQ sentiments being expressed on a Monday livestream, his third in a week. Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that his latter comments represented “the final straw” for the organization.
The 23-year-old guard had recently been shut down for rest of the regular season due to lingering knee pain. All told, he suited up for just four games with Chicago. Losing Ivey right now isn’t a big deal for Chicago, as he’s no longer the athletic force he had been prior to a foot fracture incurred midway through 2024-25, while he was still with the Detroit Pistons.
© Vincent Carchietta-Imagn ImagesBulls Should Cut Arturas Karnisovas Next
Chicago’s lack of due diligence on Ivey’s health and/or personal convictions before acquiring him in a trade stands as a brutal indictment of team president Arturas Karnisovas. To only get essentially several second-round picks, whatever Rob Dillingham is, and Leonard Miller at the trade deadline in return for key cogs like Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, and Nikola Vucevic is proof positive that the Bulls front office foolishly held on to those pieces for far too long.
Under head coach Billy Donovan, the Bulls have also been able to unnecessarily cobble together wins during a doomed season, hurting their shot at a top lottery pick in the 2026 NBA Draft. On Tankathon’s current board, Chicago has just the 10th-best odds at nabbing a top-four or No. 1 selection.
As our pal Ricky O’Donnell of SB Nation observes, this latest indignity should be reason enough for the Reinsdorf family to finally, mercifully fire Karnisovas at season’s end — ahead of the loaded draft. But that would require them to actually care about this franchise. And we’ve seen precious little evidence of that.
Karnisovas’ sins are legion. He almost always holds on to his own assets too long — consider his botching of the Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso contracts, too. Granted, Chicago got Josh Giddey on his rookie deal in return for Caruso, but the team deserved a pick for their two-time All-Defensive Teamer.
Chicago also sports a checkered draft history under Karnisovas. In 2020, the club drafted Patrick Williams over future All-Stars Tyrese Haliburton, Deni Avdija and Tyrese Maxey, plus future stellar role players Onyeka Okongwu, Devin Vassell, Aaron Nesmith, Isaiah Stewart, Payton Pritchard, Jaden McDaniels and Desmond Bane. The Williams pick may be the Bulls’ biggest sin under this regime.
Perhaps the second-biggest was doubling down on the mistake, when Karnisovas inked Williams to a stunning five-year, $90 million deal in restricted free agency.
Last summer, Karnisovas also selected non-rotation forward Noa Essengue over Derik Queen, Carter Bryant, Hugo Gonzalez, Ryan Kalkbrenner, and Maxime Raynaud. Chicago also allegedly passed up the opportunity to trade the pick that became Essengue for the New Orleans Pelicans’ unprotected 2026 NBA Draft pick.
Given that the Pelicans are now destined for the lottery, this was a massive mistake — unless Essengue blossoms into an All-Star for the Bulls down the line.
Drafting Dalen Terry with the No. 18 pick in 2022 over Jake LaRavia, Christian Braun, Walker Kessler, Peyton Watson, Andrew Nembhard, Jaylin Williams and Rolling Meadows High School alum Max Christie has also already come back to haunt Karnisovas.
The Bulls have been perpetually stuck in the mud during Karnisovas’ rudderless six-season tenure. Chicago has made the playoffs exactly once in 2022. That spring, the banged-up Bulls got obliterated in five games by the Milwaukee Bucks. But Karnisovas botched his team-building by offloading multiple draft picks, including his notorious deal to ship two eventual lottery selections (which became Franz Wagner and Anthony Black) to Orlando for Nikola Vucevic.
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