The Chicago Bulls chapter in Nikola Mirotic’s career is officially over. First reported by Woj at ESPN, Niko is indeed headed to New Orleans to join Anthony Davis and the Pelicans.
The Pelicans will send a first-round pick (protected top five in 2018, and protected top eight in 2019), center Omer Asik, and veteran guards Tony Allen and Jameer Nelson. The Bulls are also sending in a couple sweeteners with Mirotic: the second round pick they acquired from New Orleans last September in the Quincy Pondexter trade.