Chicago Bulls: Season Player Grades for 2019-20

After failing to reach the postseason for the third consecutive season, it’s time to look at how each Chicago Bulls player fared this year.

In hindsight, the 2019-20 Chicago Bulls season brought forth a Machiavellian catharsis that was absent from the previous several campaigns.

Sure, the team trudged through another joyless sub-.500 season with an offense that resembled something a four-year-old would draw up in NBA 2K. And yes, they also had to endure the indignity of having to listen to Jim Boylen’s empty platitudes. But when your 22-43 record results in not only Boylen getting fired but also longtime scourges Gar Forman and Jim Paxson, sometimes the ends justify the bad basketball.

The Bulls will now move forward with Arturas Karnisovas as executive vice president of basketball operations and Billy Donovan as the head coach, but what are these two inheriting with this roster besides a collective that finished with the ninth-worst net rating in the NBA and a scoring attack that tallied 3.9 fewer points per 100 possessions than the league average?

To answer that question, we’ll need to evaluate and grade each Bulls player who played at least 500 minutes this past season. Given how things turned out, the grades won’t be THAT high, but it’s instructive to see how far the players have come and how far they need to go to turn this team into a playoff contender.