Videogame developer 2K Sports recently dropped their highly-anticipated and latest entry in their NBA 2K series, NBA 2K26. Player ratings are always a source of debate within the 2K and sometimes larger basketball community, although you aren’t likely to find complaints about the ratings of a young Chicago Bulls squad with many unproven talents mixed in with their veterans. The highest-rated Bulls player in NBA 2K26 is Coby White, the first time the guard out of North Carolina has been the top-rated player in Chicago.
White’s Chicago Bulls-leading 83 overall rating comes off of the heels of an excellent 2024-25 campaign. Last season he averaged 20.4 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 0.9 steals per game on a 60% True Shooting Percentage. White also managed to hoist up a career-best 7.9 attempts per game from 3-point range, a feat that is even more impressive when you consider that he actually saw his minutes per game drop slightly from the 2024 season.
Rounding out the top three for the Bulls in NBA 2K26 is Nikola Vucevic and Josh Giddey, both rated at 82 overall. While obviously not an exact science, it is interesting that the 2K26 ratings see Giddey and Vucevic as equals heading in the 2025-25 season.
Vucevic averaged another solid double-double for Chicago (18.5 PPG, 10.1 RPG) and saw his 3-point shooting bounce back in a major way (40.2% from deep in ‘24-’25).
Defensive issues once again came into play for Vucevic, whose general lack of lateral quickness limits scheme versatility for head coaches, as it did for Billy Donovan in Chicago’s 109-90 Play-In loss to the Miami Heat. But Vucevic is still a serviceable starting center, with consistency on offense that is useful and his latest 2K rating reflects that. Plus, all of Chicago’s struggle in the Play-In can’t be blamed on him. The Bulls had trouble containing the Heat scorers on the perimeter, primarily Tyler Herro who went for 38 points. He exploited the poor perimeter defense of White and Josh Giddey.
Giddey averaged 14.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, 7.2 assists and 1.2 steals per game while showing major improvement as a floor-spacer, knocking down 37.8% of his 3-point FGs. The 6-foot-8 Australian guard saw his true coming out party down the stretch of the season, where he exploded for a number of huge performances that included triple-doubles and even a game-winning shot to take down the star-studded Los Angeles Lakers.
The NBA 2K26 ratings don’t see the Bulls as an Eastern Conference juggernaut, and while the actual figures themselves can be debated, the ratings grouping the Bulls top-three players so close together feels accurate for a group that ran an egalitarian offense in 2025.