Chicago Bulls remain active after finalizing Josh Giddey trade NBC Chicago [Video]

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Thursday’s feeling of “what’s next?” for the Chicago Bulls only intensified Friday morning when the Bulls and Oklahoma City Thunder separately made the Alex Caruso-for-Josh Giddey trade official with news releases.

While Bulls executive vice president Artūras Karnišovas opted for his preferred mode of silence with no quotes added to his team’s release, Thunder executive vice president and general manager Sam Presti provided strong and specific detail into Giddey’s mindset.

“When we drafted Josh in 2021, he was an essential aspect of our vision for the next iteration of the Thunder,” Presti said in his statement. “Since then, our team has evolved rapidly and dynamically in ways we could never have anticipated. Therefore, as we began our internal discussions this off-season, it was determined that bringing Josh off the bench next season was our best option to maximize his many talents and deploy our team more efficiently over 48 minutes.

“As we laid out to Josh how he could …