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The Chicago Bulls Lost Cooper Flagg On A Coin Flip And Fans Are Justifiably Crashing Out

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The Chicago Bulls have the No. 12 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft after Monday night’s draft lottery. But the Bulls were a literal coin flip away from landing the No. 1 pick and, subsequently, Duke phenom Cooper Flagg. And Chicago fans are justifiably crashing out over their misfortune.

The Bulls entered the draft lottery with the 12th-best odds to secure the No. 1 pick after losing in the play-in round of the NBA playoffs. The Dallas Mavericks, who jumped from No. 11 to No. 1, also lost in the play-in round and had the same regular-season record as Chicago. In order to determine which team would have the 11th best odds and which would have the 12th, the NBA conducted a coin flip on April 22.

The Mavericks won that coin flip, grabbing the 11th spot. At the time, nobody thought much of the results. Surely neither Dallas nor Chicago would jump all the way up to number one. But now that the lottery is over, it’s abundantly clear that the coin may have just changed the future of both the Dallas Mavericks and the Chicago Bulls organizations.

As you can imagine, Bulls fans did not take the results of the lottery very well.

“The Bulls losing the coin flip for the pick that landed Cooper Flagg is another karmic punishment for Jerry Reinsdorf’s sins against mankind,” Ricky O’Donnell of SBNation posted on X.”

“WE LOST COOPER FLAGG BECAUSE OF A F—ING COINFLIP MAN,” Bulls superfan Kenny Beecham wrote.
“Coin flip!? 82 games for a coin flip. Such garbage…” X user @UFMJA posted.
Last year, the Bulls finished one spot behind the Atlanta Hawks, who went on to win the lottery. Chicago also would’ve had the 11th-best odds if it had not beaten the Los Angeles Lakers on a wild buzzer-beater. So maybe Chicago is just cursed. Maybe this is penance for getting Michael Jordan in the 90s. But one thing is certain, Chicago fans are not okay right now.