In this video I’m talking to Bulls fans who are acting like it’s top-4 or bust in the 2026 Draft, and I’m telling y’all straight up: that’s not reality. The Bulls were never going to be a bottom-four team after already stacking over 20 wins, and the “they should’ve tanked harder” crowd is living in an alternate reality. With the Bulls sitting around that 9/10 range and tied up with Milwaukee, yeah, the odds shift a little—about a 6% difference for top-four odds—but you were always going to need draft luck anyway. The bigger point is this: the 2026 Draft is very, very deep. A lot of people only know the top four names everybody repeats, but this class could end up generationally deep where you can find All-Star caliber talent at 9 or 10—and even lottery-level talent in the 20s, like Jake Fischer reported via The Stein Line. I also run through why this draft can still be “salvaged” for Chicago even without jumping up, because there are real prospects with All-Star skill sets outside the top tier. The Bulls still have to develop whoever they take and actually hit on the pick, but this isn’t a typical draft year—and that matters for how AK is thinking about resetting the deck and chasing a franchise-altering talent.