Essengue will miss the Bulls' final Summer League game Friday due to a lingering right quadriceps contusion. The No. 12 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft flashed potential this summer, highlighted by a 21-point outing with three made threes in his last appearance Monday against the Pacers.

Like Patrick Williams—Chicago’s dumbest first-round draft decision since they traded LaMarcus Aldridge for Tyrus Thomas in 2006 (oy gevalt)—the 18-year-old wasn’t his team’s go-to player in his recent pre-NBA life. (Williams, if you’ll recall—and I very much recall—was the sixth man in his only season at Florida State.)