The Bulls have exercised their team option on Dalen Terry for the 2024/25 season, the team confirmed today (Twitter link via K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago).
The 18th overall pick in the 2022 draft out of Arizona, Terry appeared in just 38 games as a rookie, averaging 2.2 points and 1.0 rebounds in 5.6 minutes per night.
The 6’7″ wing has expressed, on multiple occasions, a desire to earn a more regular role for Chicago in his second NBA season, but that hasn’t materialized in the early going — he has logged just five minutes in two appearances so far and was assigned to the Windy City Bulls in the G League for training camp.
Terry will earn approximately $3.35MM this season and now has his $3.51MM salary for 2024/25 guaranteed as well. The Bulls will have to decide by October 31, 2024 whether or not to pick up his fourth-year option for ’25/26, which is worth just shy of $5.4MM.
Rookie scale options decisions for ’24/25 are due by the end of the day on Tuesday. You can view all those decisions right here.
Why?
Because the Bulls are a joke and their owner won’t fire GMs because he’s too cheap to pay the rest of their contracts, NBA should be ashamed of themselves with how much fan money in Chicago is just left on the table because no one cares about this loser @$$ team
Yeah, horrible and horribly confusing decision. He was just sent to the G League. He hasn’t shown NBA level talent. Know it is early but there’s nothing you can identify he does particularly well. His body control is not there for an NBA level athlete.
The Bulls really, REALLY love to double down on things that currently do not, and probably never will, work
$&;!!!@@@grrrrr