Our Chicago Bulls have four selections in the 2026 NBA Draft, two per round. According to Tankathon, the Bulls’ lottery pick has a 20.3 percent shot at cracking the top four (the ninth-best odds), and a 4.5 percent shot at earning the No. 1 pick.
This year’s draft is said to be loaded, with college standouts AJ Dybantsa, Caleb Wilson, Cameron Boozer and Darryn Peterson expected to be the top four selections in some order.
Last week, the league announced that 73 players had been invited to the 2026 NBA Draft Combine, set to take place from May 10-17 in Chicago.
One of those prospects, however, will be scratched. Former Wake Forest swingman Juke Harris announced on his Instagram that he will be returning to school, after all — albeit transferring to Tennessee for his junior season.
The 2026 ACC Most Improved Player, Harris enjoyed a breakout season in 2025-26. He averaged 21.4 points on .444/.332/.783 shooting splits, 6.5 boards, 1.9 dimes and 1.3 swipes a night. Harris was projected to be the No. 40 pick in ESPN’s latest ranking of the best-available 2026 draft prospects.
Among the top 73, one major surprise (to this writer, at least) is two-time All-Big Ten Northwestern forward Nick Martinelli, a prolific sharpshooter on some bad Wildcats clubs who seems likelier to be a two-way signing than a draft pick. Martinelli’s a talented player, but can he actually be a rotation-level NBA pro?
Key New NBA/NBPA CBA Notes on the 2026 Draft
Thanks to the league’s latest CBA, some new rules have been made for the invitees. Truant invited players who do not supply an excused absence (exceptions include a continuing FIBA season, an injury, or family issues) become ineligible for this year’s draft. Scrimmages aren’t required, but players will need to have physicals and share their medical information with teams. They will also need to sit for interviews with teams and attendant journalists, partake in testing and get size measurements.
Teams will be able to access medical information based upon where a player is set to be drafted — so the anticipated No. 1 pick (Dybantsa, in this case)’s results would only be accessible for the top 10 teams, while the top 15 will get intel on the Nos. 2-6-ranked players, and clubs with picks in the top 25 would get information for the Nos. 7-10 prospects.
New Chicago Bulls EVP of Basketball Operations Bryson Graham. Via Chicago Bulls.Players to Watch for Bryson Graham
Fresh Bulls EVP of basketball operations Bryson Graham will face the first big test of his tenure with the draft. He has a lottery pick, the No. 15 selection, and the Nos. 38 and 56 picks at his disposal.
So that essentially means that everyone should be on Chicago’s watchlist.
The biggest question: should the Bulls trade up for a top-four pick?
Yes. That’s how crazy the league at large is about at least Dybantsa, Wilson and Boozer (I’m a bit lukewarm on Peterson thanks to his spooky health issues and inconsistent availability).
Ideally, the Bjulls would ditch the No. 15 selection in such a transaction, but hold onto any of their own future picks in such a transaction.
Alabama Crimson Tide forward Amari Allen. Mandatory Credit: Matt Pendleton-Imagn ImagesSleeper NBA Draft Prospects for the Bulls to Watch
Every declared player in ESPN’s top 25 (beyond the injury-prone Jayden Quaintance, who feels like an obvious stayaway) is worth an extended look. The Bulls have positional needs absolutely everywhere.
That said, among second-round sleepers, frontcourt sliders like SEC All-Freshman Alabama forward Amari Allen, All-ACC North Carolina center Henri Veesaar and consensus All-American Iowa State forward Joshua Jefferson are worth an extended look. All are at least solid floor spacers, and all at one time were seen as likely first-rounders before slipping. Suddenly, they’re now undervalued.
For too long in the Arturas Karnisovas/Billy Donovan era, the Bulls leaned on fleets of tiny guards while de-emphasizing size. No more. During his own introductory presser, Graham spoke about wanting two-way players and looking for prospects with length.
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