Traded to Chicago on Thursday as a salary dump by the Portland Trail Blazers, can Bulls fans expect 22-year-old power forward Noah Vonleh to be anything more than Omer Asik’s small-talk buddy at the end of the bench?
A one-and-done at Indiana University after the 2013-2014 season, the Charlotte Hornets selected him with the ninth overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft. After an underwhelming season in Charlotte that included a sports hernia surgery, the Hornets traded him to the Portland Trail Blazers to acquire Nic Batum. In Portland across three seasons, Vonleh’s averged 3.