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Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show

Full Show — June 24, 2026

24 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What were the Chicago Bulls' draft picks in the 2026 NBA Draft?

1.887 - 20.824 Craig Council

This hour is brought to you by Vasectomy Clinics of Chicago.

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24.449 - 29.135 Leila Rahimi

Rahimi Harrison-Grody, 10-2 on 104.3 The Score.

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29.435 - 34.261 Vinny Rotino

Now, Marshall, do you think that perhaps some of those high percentage shots come from Caleb Wilson?

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35.022 - 35.283 Marshall Harris

Yes.

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36.424 - 51.663

I like Caleb Wilson. With the fourth pick in the 2026 NBA draft, the Chicago Bulls select Caleb Wilson from the University of North Carolina.

51.683 - 65.682 Leila Rahimi

It's loose to Wilson. Here comes Caleb Wilson, the first to score. Very good player, having a big season for the Heels. Wilson drives and hits it.

65.722 - 79.241 Caleb Wilson

My workout comes from me being hungry, man. I mean, I'm always going. do whatever it takes to get better. I want to be the greatest player of all time, man. Y'all got, y'all got one of the ghosts in y'all, in y'all history right now. So it's time for another one. So I just want to, I'm hungry, man. I'm hungry to be the greatest. That's me.

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With the 15th pick in the 2026 NBA draft, the Chicago Bulls select Daylon Swain. Yes! Got it. My name is on fire.

89.212 - 98.061 Leila Rahimi

Daylon Swain. They can, they can overhelp on Swain because he's not a three-point shooter, but he can do that. Sitting on two for seven.

Chapter 2: How did Caleb Wilson's performance impact the Bulls' selection?

153.814 - 177.107 Vinny Rotino

We'll talk about that at 1025. Sox won. We'll talk about that at 1045. And to start, I think the Bulls won in that they drafted the guy that we thought they were going to in Caleb Wilson. Nobody got cute. Everybody understood the assignment. And it was very calming for me to watch everyone go in order. DeBonsa, Peterson, Boozer. And then that left the door open for Caleb Wilson to the Bulls.

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177.607 - 178.909 Vinny Rotino

And they got their guy.

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178.889 - 192.687 Marshall Harris

Is it bad that I was hoping for a little chaos in that top three just to see something interesting? Not that I didn't want Caleb Wilson to eventually become a bull, but I was like, let's see something spicy happen. Let's see, I don't know, Darren Peterson go first overall instead of A.J. DeBonsa.

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192.868 - 214.059 Marshall Harris

So much, Marshall, that, get this, you're going to need to hear this right now because you're going to crush me for it. I put a few bucks down just for the potential of... Which one? I had Darren Peterson. I bet on him to go number one overall. What was the odds at that point? It was like plus 700 or something like that. Smart money. Small money.

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214.12 - 226.564 Marshall Harris

But to your point, to your point, I was looking for a little chaos, too, and to maybe make a few bucks. But I lost money. But go ahead, please. But I think what we learn from seeing Bryson Graham, remember, this is like his thing that he does. He finds the talent.

226.544 - 240.435 Marshall Harris

not necessarily the easy one that falls two at number four, but at 15, I was more interested, honestly, because we kind of expected Caleb Wilson to be the guy at four, in the Daylon Swain pick, simply because once he was drafted, I was like, okay,

240.533 - 253.672 Marshall Harris

was he being honest with us with his whole slap philosophy, the size, length, athleticism, and the physicality, but also understanding that I don't know if this guy can shoot at the level I like my basketball players to be able to shoot.

253.833 - 274.1 Vinny Rotino

Well, that's it. This is going against the grain a little bit. When you think about the last three moves the Bulls have made, right, when you consider that, for example, they get Nick Claxton. We've talked about that. You know, they wanted a guy who was a starting caliber center there. Then they go after Caleb Wilson. We understand the threes are not part of his college game.

274.441 - 295.423 Vinny Rotino

Then they go after Daylon Swain from Texas, and it makes you wonder. He was picked with the 15th pick overall. So how does this look? You know, you're trying to visualize it, and obviously it's going to take some time for these guys, but you're trying to also visualize how is Bryson Graham putting this team together? And Tiago Splitter may be your biggest example of bigs matter.

Chapter 3: What qualities make Caleb Wilson a promising player for the Bulls?

295.803 - 299.449 Vinny Rotino

Yeah. And that is certainly looking like the case for this team.

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299.569 - 308.163 Marshall Harris

Bigs matter. And to me, it looks like he chose two-way players. And I get it. Both need work on their offensive games.

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Chapter 4: What are the expectations for Daylon Swain after being drafted?

308.364 - 326.474 Marshall Harris

Both have somewhat of a mid-range game. Both have decent field goal percentages. But it is the three. That is the bugaboo for both of those guys. But both of these guys can play really good defense. And, you know, you guys have watched enough of the tape probably even before the draft on Caleb Wilson.

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326.514 - 338.113 Marshall Harris

I mean, I went through about 15 minutes worth of his stuff last night after he was drafted just to refresh me a little bit. And it's amazing how much stuff he cleans up, too, because he's a very good offensive rebounder.

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338.153 - 338.293 Dailyn Swain

Yes.

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338.273 - 357.261 Marshall Harris

The put-back shots off of threes, if nothing else, early on. We all want to see his offensive game develop, but some of the put-back stuff on his own shots, too, I might add. But you throw up a three, you bounce it off the rim, and there's plenty of highlights where you see Caleb Wilson going up high and just slam it in some guy's face.

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357.241 - 375.503 Marshall Harris

after being subjected to Nikola Vucevic for a number of years. Subjected to? Yeah, that was the option. That's what you got. You had to watch a certain style of basketball from your inside players. You're right. And now I accept the return of violence to the lane.

375.483 - 389.462 Vinny Rotino

Well, not just violence to the lane, but just overall presence. You know, we were talking about this. I'm like, wait, offensively, how does this look for me right now? This is not the finished product of this team. They still have a massive amount of cap space. Like, this is not going to be the finished look.

389.482 - 406.086 Vinny Rotino

But at the same time, I'm like, okay, are we just rolling with like OG zone, like just two bigs, you know, baseline ones in the paint, and you're just going with the guards outside the perimeter? Because that's kind of how it looks in my head. I know that's not the finished product. I think the big thing, though, is what you talked about, Mark, the two-way player aspect of this.

406.407 - 421.328 Vinny Rotino

Even when last version's Bulls, right, the AKME, ACME, Billy Donovan Bulls, even when they were at their best, they still didn't have enough two-way players. Alex Cruz had basically turned himself into somewhat of a two-way player because of necessity.

421.869 - 435.666 Vinny Rotino

But if that's how they want to build this, that is a good sign as well because even when they were at their best under that regime, they didn't have that option. The thing about Caleb Wilson, we're going to have to just deal with it.

Chapter 5: How do the Bulls' recent draft picks fit into their overall strategy?

527.901 - 528.824 Marshall Harris

Samarja.

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529.526 - 532.735 Vinny Rotino

Just name them all. Name the 2012 greatest hit.

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532.755 - 534.098 Marshall Harris

Was Nate Sheerholtz on that?

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534.118 - 538.61 Vinny Rotino

Sheerholtz! Nate Sheerholtz. Okay, so I like Mr. Wilson. I think it's good.

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538.691 - 542.139 Marshall Harris

That's very good, Marshall. It'll help, you know, the Caleb... Fill in the blank.

542.159 - 559.424 Vinny Rotino

It's also hilarious that we're calling a guy who's, what, 19? 19 years old. But so, Mr. Wilson, I did like the ESPN coverage when it came to the film and how they put it together because they had those headlines like, he can rebound. It was like, good rebound. I forget what the descriptive word was that they used.

559.524 - 575.249 Vinny Rotino

But that is really, I think, what you're seeing here is a vision where not only are we going to have a lot more, I think, high percentage shots. but we're also going to see a lot of second-chance points with a guy like that. I would believe that that is the vision for what we're going to see.

575.349 - 585.546 Marshall Harris

It took me back to Tiago Splitter at his introductory press conference talking about the fact that the Portland Trailblazers, especially to start, not a good three-point shooting team, but they took a lot of threes, right?

585.526 - 610.133 Marshall Harris

but splitter was very quick to respond and say hey we did miss a lot of shots but we got a lot of offensive rebounds one of the best offensive rebounding teams and i think for a big as a head coach that's going to be part of their identity that athleticism that physicality and the length is the fact that they're going to go after shots that are missed and even if they can't shoot right away returning right now jalen smith is their best three-point shooter sticks yo

Chapter 6: What challenges do the Bulls face with their new roster?

910.76 - 922.639 Caleb Wilson

I mean, I'm always going to do whatever it takes to get better. I want to be the greatest player of all time. Y'all got one of the ghosts in y'all history right now, so it's time for another one. I'm hungry, man. I'm hungry to be the greatest. That's me.

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923.18 - 928.929 Vinny Rotino

The sad part is there's a good chance Michael Jordan went to more of his games than Bulls games in the last couple of years.

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929.209 - 936.296 Marshall Harris

He's definitely... I will guess he will go to more of his games in college than he ever goes as a pro. Went to more Kobe White games.

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936.636 - 940.3 Vinny Rotino

He went to the Bill Belichick season debut of the football team last year.

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940.32 - 942.583 Marshall Harris

The one where the students left at, what, halftime?

943.063 - 943.364 Vinny Rotino

Yeah.

943.844 - 949.41 Marshall Harris

I've officially stopped expecting things from Michael Jordan because it just hurts too much. That's smart. No, that's just practical.

949.45 - 950.892 Vinny Rotino

Maybe this is our way back in.

951.412 - 951.873 Marshall Harris

Could it be?

Chapter 7: How can the Bulls improve their offensive game with new players?

972.885 - 981.239 Marshall Harris

Wave it around like a helicopter. South's got something to say, man. That's not the South. Oh. The word North is literally in the name. Wait, North Carolina's not considered a southern state? No.

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981.439 - 983.222 Vinny Rotino

I think it depends on who you ask.

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983.692 - 985.677 Marshall Harris

Is it because South Carolina is a southern state?

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985.857 - 987.802 Vinny Rotino

Marshall says this because he's from Alabama.

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987.842 - 990.549 Marshall Harris

That's why I'm acquiescing. I'm actually, I don't know.

990.709 - 993.456 Vinny Rotino

Are you kidding? People south of I-80 think they're from the south.

994.419 - 995.882 Marshall Harris

Is Texas the south?

995.942 - 996.664 Vinny Rotino

I don't consider Texas the south.

996.684 - 1003.712 Marshall Harris

Are we measuring by number of Confederate flags you see? Because a lot of places will be the south then. A lot of places will be the South.

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