IMPORTANT: I ​​forgot to include the 4th pick in the post 🤣🤣 (although it is understood that this goes to the team that makes the strong offer, which is OKC)

Key condition: Nets mustn't select Aday Mara with the 6th pick.

Therefore, this hypothetical trade would take place just before choosing the 7th pick, having previously chosen: #4 (CHI): Boozer/Wilson; #5 (LAC): Darius Acuff Jr.; #6 (BKN): another guard (Wagler, Flemings, Brown Jr. or Burries).

Bulls would try to make the following trade:

• CHI: #11 pick

• GSW: #17 pick + 2031 1st round pick (via MIN) + #34 pick + #37 pick

In that case, Chicago's picks would have been next on draft night:

• 7th pick (CHI): Aday Mara

• 11th pick (CHI): Yaxel Lendeborg

• 12th pick (CHI): Morez Johnson Jr.

• 15th pick (CHI): Cameron Carr

• 38th pick (CHI): Baba Miller

STARTING FIVE (Chicago)

• PG: Josh Giddey

• SG: Cameron Carr

• SF: Yaxel Lendeborg

• PF: Matas Buzelis

• C: Isaiah Hartenstein

BENCH (Chicago)

• PG: Tre Jones, Rob Dillingham

• SG: Jared McCain, Keon Ellis

• SF: Leonard Miller, Baba Miller, Noa Essengue

• PF: Morez Johnson Jr., Patrick Williams

• C: Aday Mara

Additionally, Bulls would sign Keon Ellis in free agency.

Looking at the resulting roster, Bulls could be perfectly competitive in Eastern Conference (play-in: seed 7-8).

This would be a season to prove that Chicago is a good place for a top free agent in 2027.