The Bulls, as part of their PATH (people actually have credited them for ‘picking a direction’, haha), have been really bad. They’ve also been extremely inexpensive. After this past trade deadline, where they did pick up some money, they still owned an open roster spot and up to $10m in cap flexibility.
In the time since, in what was purported to be time for player development, the Bulls have done nothing of consequence with the spot. Instead, as a way to get up to the salary floor, they’re signing guys as financial favors to affiliated players and their agents.