Chicago Bulls Receive: Ricky Rubio

Minnesota Timberwolves Receive: Thaddeus Young

Both the Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves are teams who are unbalanced in their depth chart. Each side would benefit from swapping one of their veterans like Ricky Rubio and Thaddeus Young to help address a position of weakness.

This is not a trade that will completely turnaround either one of these teams but it would help balance the rosters. Ricky Rubio to the Bulls would give them a veteran player they want who could run the offense off the bench. That is something they are lacking at this moment.

For the Timberolves, they would receive Thaddeus Young. We mentioned the depth at shooting guard for Minnesota. In the frontcourt outside of Karl-Anthony Towns, who has missed time recently, they are thin downlow. Young would give them a solid option with great versatility.

Let’s take a look at how this NBA trade deadline scenario would benefit both the Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves.