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Chicago Bulls Odds & Betting Guide: 2026-27 Season

Chicago finished 2025-26 at 31-51, 12th in the Eastern Conference and fourth in the Central. The Bulls missed the playoffs for a fourth straight year and missed the play-in for the first time since 2021. They opened 5-0, then went 0-11 in February with a -190 point differential. That slide followed a deadline sell-off in which the front office made a league-high seven trades and sent out Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu and Nikola Vucevic.

The Bulls fired Artūras Karnišovas and general manager Marc Eversley on April 6, and Billy Donovan stepped down on April 21 after six seasons as head coach. In May, Chicago hired former Hawks executive Bryson Graham to run basketball operations. Graham hired Tiago Splitter, who opens 2026-27 in his first season on the Bulls bench.

Graham rebuilt the roster around Josh Giddey and Matas Buzelis. Buzelis averaged 16.3 points and 1.5 blocks across 77 games last season. Chicago drafted North Carolina forward Caleb Wilson fourth overall and Texas wing Dailyn Swain 15th. Graham also landed center Nic Claxton from Brooklyn in a four-team trade, signed Norman Powell to a two-year deal and re-signed Zach Collins.

For bettors, start with the point differential. Opponents outscored Chicago by 427 points, a margin that usually produces about 29 wins, and the Bulls won 31. That cushion came from close games, which rarely repeat. Follow every Bulls line on VI’s NBA betting odds board.

Eastern Conference and Central Division context

The Central sent two teams deep into the 2026 playoffs. Detroit won 60 games and took the East’s top seed, and Cleveland reached the conference finals before the Knicks swept it. DraftKings lists the Pistons at +125 and the Cavaliers at +130 to win the division, with Indiana at +340 now that Tyrese Haliburton is healthy. Chicago sits at +8000 and Milwaukee at +25000 on the Central Division odds board.

Four games against each rival put 16 of Chicago’s 82 games inside the Central. The Bulls went 4-12 in those games last season. Eight of this year’s 16 come against the top two, so check the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons odds pages before you price those matchups.

Division winners haven’t held a guaranteed top-four seed since 2015-16, so the conference race carries more betting weight than the Central title. For Chicago, that race sits at the 7-through-10 play-in line. NBA.com’s preseason rankings put the Bulls 13th in the East, behind Atlanta, Orlando, Charlotte and Washington. Those four are Chicago’s real competition, and the Eastern Conference odds page shows how far apart the market prices them.

Chicago also plays four NBA Cup group games in East Group C against Boston, Atlanta, Charlotte and Washington, and those results count in the standings. The Bulls are 3-9 all-time in Cup games and have never advanced past group play.

Bulls 2026-27 win total

BetMGM lists Chicago at 29.5 wins, with the over at -105 and the under at -115. Caesars, DraftKings and BetMGM all sat at 27.5 in August, so the market has moved two full wins toward the over since summer. At the new number, the under carries the heavier price. That tells you bettors have started backing the under at 29.5. It doesn’t tell you which side is right. Compare Chicago’s number with every other team on VI’s NBA win total odds page.

The Bulls angle: Last season’s 31 wins leaned on close games. Chicago went 10-6 in games decided by three points or fewer while losing 32 of the 45 games decided by 10 or fewer. Records in tight games tend to regress toward .500, and 10-6 sits on the lucky side. A break-even year in those games would have left the Bulls near 29 wins, right at this year’s number.

The league’s new “3-2-1” lottery also changes how to read a bottom-end total. Under the format the board of governors approved in May, the three worst records each get a 5.4% chance at the No. 1 pick, while the fourth- through 10th-worst teams each get 8.1%. Finishing last no longer buys the best odds, which weakens the old case for an April fade. Chicago plays Milwaukee, whose own total sits in the mid-20s, twice in the final six days of the season.

Bulls 2026-27 futures odds

BetMGM listed Chicago at +75000 to win the 2027 NBA title in July, an implied probability of 0.13%. The Bulls are +30000 to win the East at BetMGM, where the 76ers moved to +350 favorites after signing LeBron James. Oklahoma City and San Antonio opened as co-favorites for the title.

The Bulls future with real movement is Rookie of the Year. Wilson opened at +1000 at BetMGM and shortened to +300 by September, level with Memphis forward Cameron Boozer. The move took his implied probability from 9.1% to 25%. Wilson averaged 23.5 points in 27.7 minutes at Summer League. Track the full award board on VI’s NBA futures odds page.

Betting Bulls point spreads

Books set a point spread to turn an uneven matchup into a roughly even bet. The favorite gives points, the underdog takes them.

Bulls -6.5 (-110) / Wizards +6.5 (-110)

The Bulls cover by winning the game by seven or more. The Wizards cover by winning outright or losing by six or fewer. The half-point means neither side can push.

A winning $100 bet at -110 returns $190.91: the $100 stake plus $90.91 in profit. A losing bet returns nothing. Both sides here are priced at -110, and that is where the book earns. You risk $110 to win $100 whichever side you take. When books post a whole number instead, a game decided by exactly that margin pushes and both sides get their stake back.

Chicago stood at 33-37-1 against the spread on March 25, and VI’s NBA ATS rankings page carries the final 2025-26 mark for every team. The Bulls opened last season 5-0 ATS, then faded as the roster turned over. Road games hurt most: Chicago went 13-18 ATS away from home through mid-March.

The Bulls angle: The schedule has 15 back-to-backs, and seven put the second night on the road. Two four-game western trips stand out. The first runs through Sacramento, Golden State and Phoenix before ending at altitude in Utah on Jan. 12. The second opens at altitude in Denver on Feb. 11 and closes with the Lakers and Clippers on consecutive nights, Feb. 16 and 17. Check rest and travel before you take Chicago plus the points in those spots.

Betting Bulls totals

Books set a total for the combined points both teams score, then let bettors take a side. Say books post Bulls vs. Wizards at 226.5. The over cashes if the two teams combine for 227 or more. The under cashes at 226 or fewer. A half-point total cannot push.

NBA totals follow pace. Two fast teams produce more possessions and more scoring chances, and that matters more to the number than either team’s shooting percentage.

Why Bulls totals move: Chicago allowed 121.5 points per game last season, one of the three worst marks in the league, yet the over cashed in only 28 of its first 59 games. Books had already priced the leaky defense into high totals, and Bulls games regularly closed in the 230s and 240s. Claxton adds the rim protection Chicago lacked, and Splitter’s pace won’t show up in the data until the games start. Books set the opener in Toronto at 235.5. VI’s free NBA picks page posts handicapper sides and totals for Bulls games all season.

Betting the Bulls moneyline

The moneyline asks one question: who wins. Points do not matter.

Bulls -240 / Wizards +200

Minus marks the favorite, plus the underdog. At -240 you risk $240 to win $100. At +200 you risk $100 to win $200.

Converting to implied probability makes the pricing clearer. The -240 favorite implies 70.6%. The +200 underdog implies 33.3%. Those sum to 103.9%, not 100%. The extra 3.9 points are the book’s margin, and the book collects it whichever side wins.

One thing worth getting straight: a short price is not automatically a bad bet. Bettors call heavy favorites bad value out of habit, but if the Bulls win this matchup 75% of the time, -240 is a price worth taking, because it only implies 70.6%. Value is the gap between real probability and priced probability. The size of the number tells you nothing on its own.

When one side carries heavier juice than the other, that tells you where money is landing, not which side is correct. If the Bulls drift from -240 to -270, bettors backed the Bulls and the book adjusted its exposure. The team did not become more likely to win.

Apply it to the opener. DraftKings posted Toronto at -345 and Chicago at +275. The Raptors price implies 77.5% and the Bulls price implies 26.7%, a combined 104.2%. Run any Bulls price through VI’s odds calculator to see its implied probability before you bet. Chicago won 14 of its first 35 games as a moneyline underdog last season, a 40% rate at plus-money prices.

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Bulls player props

A player prop prices one player’s production in one game.

Josh Giddey points: 18.5 (over -115, under -105)

The over needs 19 points. The under needs 18 or fewer.

NBA props respond to availability more than anything else. When a teammate is ruled out, his minutes and shots move to the players still on the floor, and books adjust within minutes of the news. Check the injury report before betting a prop, and check the book’s rules for a player who does not play, because they differ between books.

Giddey posted 13 triple-doubles last season, so his rebound and assist lines deserve as much attention as his points. Claxton’s status moves the frontcourt: when he sits, Collins and Jalen Smith pick up his minutes. Browse every Bulls line on VI’s NBA prop bets page.

Bulls line movement: open versus consensus

VI’s odds board lists two numbers for every game. The Open is the first line a Las Vegas or global book posted. The Consensus is the median current line across VI’s books. When the consensus moves off the open, bettors have pushed books to a new number, and the direction shows where the money went.

The opener shows the other case. Toronto opened at -8.5 with a 235.5 total, and through Oct. 13 the consensus hadn’t moved off either number. A line that holds for a week tells you books haven’t taken enough one-sided money to move it, and injury news is the likeliest trigger before tip.

VI’s NBA betting trends page adds the history for each game. Toronto beat Chicago in all three meetings last season by a combined 55 points.

Bulls franchise history

Six titles between 1991 and 1998 still make Chicago one of the league’s best-known brands, but the market doesn’t price the Bulls like the Lakers or Knicks, and the TV schedule agrees. Chicago got three national games: the Knicks at home on NBC on Dec. 1, a January trip to Indiana and a Jan. 20 game in Brooklyn on ESPN. None air on Prime Video, and only five teams got fewer.

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