The Chicago Bulls have acquired center Nikola Vučević (KNEE-coal-uh VOOCH-uh-vitch) and forward Al-Farouq Aminu (al-fah-ruke ah-ME-new) from the Orlando Magic in return for forward Otto Porter Jr. what’s more, focus Wendell Carter Jr., just as two first-round picks with certain lottery position protections.
A two-time All-Star, Vučević (7-0, 260) has averaged at the points of 16.7 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 30.5 minutes per game while shooting .497 from the field over his 10 NBA seasons. This season, he’s averaging a career-high 24.5 points per game to oblige 11.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists 44 games (44 beginnings). Vučević has scored in double figures each game this season, including 32 20-point games, nine 30-point games and two 40-point games. His 30 games with 10-plus rebounds are the fifth-most in the NBA.
Vučević has one triple-double in 2020-21, and his 30 double-doubles are tied for the third-most in the NBA this season. On March 14 versus Miami, Vučević posted 38 points, 10 bounce back and six helps while shooting 6-of-13 from 3-point range, making him the third community in NBA history (Jokic, Cousins) with at any rate 35 points, 10 bounce back, five helps and five 3-pointers made during a single game.
Vučević was chosen 16th generally speaking by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2011 NBA Draft and was exchanged to Orlando as a feature of a four-group bargain on Aug. 10, 2012. He has been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week multiple times, and his bounce back per game normal has been in the best 20 of the NBA multiple times in 10 seasons.
Vučević has seven profession games with 20 points and 20 rebounds, and his all out of 356 twofold pairs are second just to Andre Drummond in the years since he entered the alliance in 2011-12. He has been in the Playoffs multiple times, once with Philadelphia his newbie season and twice with Magic. In the 2020 postseason, he found the middle value of 28.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 4.0 helps while shooting .505 from the field, .409 from three and .909 from the free throw line in five games against the Milwaukee Bucks.
Selected eighth-overall in the 2010 NBA Draft by the L.A. Trimmers, Aminu (6-8, 220) has found the middle value of 7.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.2 aids 25.0 minutes per game over his 11-season career with the Clippers, New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans, Dallas Mavericks, Portland Trail Blazers and Orlando Magic.
In 17 games in 2020-21, he is posting 5.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game on .404 shooting from the field. On March 23 versus Denver, Aminu dished a career-high-tying six assists to oblige a season-high 17 points and 10 rebounds. He missed 27 games toward the beginning of this season because of right knee injury recovery (24) and right knee injury maintenance (3) after undergoing an arthroscopic procedure on his correct knee on Dec. 2. Aminu has been in the postseason multiple times with the Mavericks and Trail Blazers and has found the middle value of 11.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists more than 40 games (33 starts).
Watchman Jr. went to the Bulls through trade with the Washington Wizards on Feb. 6, 2019. Over his eight NBA seasons, he’s arrived at the midpoint of 11.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.14 takes in 26.5 minutes per game while shooting .480 from the field and .404 from three.
In 2017-18, Porter Jr. posted vocation highs with 14.7 points per game and .441 shooting from three, which positioned third in the NBA that year. He has been in the Playoffs multiple times, all with the Wizards, where he has averaged at the midpoint of 10.0 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 31 games (18 starts).
In his third season, Carter Jr. possesses career averages of 10.8 points, 8.1 rebounds and 0.99 blocks in 26.5 minutes per game. He was the seventh-overall selection of the Bulls in the 2018 NBA Draft out of Duke and was named to the 2020 NBA Rising Stars game on the U.S. Group. Carter Jr. has driven the group in twofold copies his last two seasons (17 out of 2019-20 and seven of every 2020-21) and has 31 complete in his career.