The Chicago Bulls ended a 31-51 season with a blowout loss to Dallas. What comes next?
DALLAS — The Chicago Bulls ended the season Sunday with one final collapse. Chicago ended its 2025-26 season with a brutal 149-128 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. The Bulls gave up 80 points by the end of the first half in a game that featured only 10 minutes of playing time from Rookie of the Year frontrunner Cooper Flagg.
In the process, they allowed the Mavericks to tally only their 26th win ...
DALLAS — The Chicago Bulls ended the season Sunday with one final collapse. Chicago ended its 2025-26 season with a brutal 149-128 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. The Bulls gave up 80 points by the end of the first half in a game that featured only 10 minutes of playing time from Rookie of the Year frontrunner Cooper Flagg.
In the process, they allowed the Mavericks to tally only their 26th win of the season. Most of the remaining starters on the team — Josh Giddey, Matas Buzelis, Isaac Okoro, Jalen Smith — missed the game with season-ending injuries of varying severity. The Bulls had already been eliminated from playoff contention for more than two weeks.
Sunday’s loss simply hammered a final nail into a season of upheaval. With Sunday’s loss, this group accomplished one goal for the Bulls: protecting their best-possible draft lottery odds by staying a game behind the Milwaukee Bucks in the overall standings. The Bulls eked out a slightly worse record than the Bucks, who finished 32-50 on the season .