Is There Really NO Trade Market for Zach Lavine??

Is There Really NO Trade Market for Zach Lavine??

With the NBA trade deadline just a little more than three weeks away and the rumors and trade speculation around the league continuing to heat up with new players being reported to be on the trading block new team showing interest in a player that was once not never to

Be on the radar trade season is without a doubt heating up but that hasn’t really been the case for Zack LaVine one of the first players at the start of the Season aside from James Harden of course whose Camp as well as the team were open to finding a new home that news

Initially broke on November 14th over 2 months ago while I think a lot of bulls fans assume Zack LaVine would eventually be traded even if it didn’t mean that it was going to happen right away it was thought that Zack LaVine was likely going to be the first to go on this

Roster well here we are 3 weeks until the trade deadline the January 15th Mark has passed where all players around the association are now trade eligible and yet everything has remained quiet on the Zack LaVine trade fund reports from National media Outlets including ESPN now stating that there is no market for

Zack LaVine teams are showing very little interest claiming the the market for Zach is so bad that the Bulls maybe might have to be happy in just getting his money off the books and treating the trade as a salary cap relief or the Bulls needing to attach additional

Assets to any deal for Zack LaVine to incentivize teams to take on his contract but how real are these reports is it true that there’s truly no market for Zack LaVine and what are the Bulls do if that ends up being the case well it’s what we’ll be talking about further

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Throughout the season now I want to start by saying because I know I started this off with a question as to whether there is truly no market for Zack LaVine that teams are not interested in trading for Zach at all that the Bulls would be lucky to just dump his salary at this

Point and to that do I think it’s true I reply no I think that notion is ridiculous that there is zero interest in Zack LaVine and that no teams are calling or making the bulls any offers for Zach granted you guys know I’m not an Insider I have no sources to back

This up to say that all these reports are BS I literally just do this channel for fun so I always say take my words with a grain of salt but the reason I think this notion of there being no market for Zack LaVine absurd is because

This isn’t a situ ation like a Ben Simmons a player who has completely fallen off couldn’t stay healthy questions around his motivation for the game and on a Max contract that would be impossible to move this isn’t a situation like a Davis Baton or even a Jordan P or hell even Andrew Wiggins

Players who got way overpaid and then fell off dramatically after getting that back Zack LaVine for his flaws and yes he’s having a down year for him but for his flaws is still a very gifted offensive player who can give you 20 points a night easily he can score on

All three levels with his ability to shoot it from outside finish at The Rim he can score in the mid-range he’s good at getting to the foul line and well yes his defense is not great and it’s always been a big weakness to his game he’s not

Trey young level bad when it comes to his defense he’s a decent on ball Defender and the other thing is Zach is in his prime this isn’t like a player we’re talking about here in their mid-30s and on a bad contract that I could see if there was no Market when a

Player is likely declining and isn’t a piece that you can work with for the future but Zack LaVine is 28 years old if Bradley Beal can get a super max contract and had a no trade clause and there was a trade market for him when he was injury-prone and a year older than

Zach a player very similar to his skill set great offensively but not the best on defense and doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to winning if there was a market for Beal then why would there not be one for Zack LaVine and look this is coming from someone who

Has been hypercritical of Zach on this channel I’ve had rants about LaVine and his effort sometimes on the floor people have called me a Zach hater in the past but to sit here and say a player of his caliber at his age has no trade value in

The current landscape of the NBA is just ridiculous to me it really is and don’t get me wrong I know Zach’s trade value is really low right now no one will argue with that even in his more improved place since coming back from that injury his value is still

Relatively low to what it was a couple years ago or even last season because yes Zach is a flawed player and I’m sure a lot of these teams teams looking to win now are asking themselves does Zack LaVine really move the needle for us does he have the right mentality and

Winning pedigree that we need and so it’s no question that Zack lavine’s trade value isn’t going to be what a lot of bulls fans were hoping for where it would include multiple first round picks and a young player or two that’s just not going to happen but given the fact

That we now have some teams around the league who have underperformed relative to their expectations teams that had title aspirations going into the season you are going to have teams that get desperate enough by the trade deadline that realize they need a ready now established player that can come in

Right away and Elevate their offense or the flip side teams that maybe weren’t expecting to be as good as they have been and they want to make a move to try to put them over the top a team like the thunder come to mind maybe even the Pelicans they’ve been better than

Expected hell even the Pacers with the emergence of Tyrese halberton teams that may look to make a bold move to get them into title contention status that’s the other thing speaking of the Pacers I’m sure a lot of you saw last night according to Sham shiria the Pacers and

The Raptors are an active talks and a deal centered around Pascal cakam and sending him to the Pacers for three first round picks now we don’t have the specifics of the deal what salary filler will be included do the picks have protections on them do they not how far

Into the future are those picks but the details aside doesn’t really matter if a player like Pascal cakam who’s going to be 30 years old soon is on an expiring contract a player who has already said he wants a Max extension and you’re going to have to pay him because you’re

Not trading three first round picks just to have him walk in free agency in the summer if he can net you three first round picks How does Zack LaVine not get you anything but salary relief in a deal or worse needing to give up Assets in

Order to move him like do you see what I’m getting at here like you don’t need to be an Insider to say something isn’t adding up here either you have a GM or Executives intentionally leaking information that may want Zach and they want to tank his trade value so they can

Get him for pennies on the dollar or the Bulls the front office as they have done in the past either keeping things closely to their chest not letting any information leak about Zack Line’s trade value so as to not impact any leverage they might have with a given team or and

This also has happened in the past they’re overvaluing LaVine and wanting to get a return package that is way too unrealistic and it’s giving off the appearance that there is no market for Zach because the Bulls front office are wanting too much for him I don’t really

Know what it is but all I can say is you can’t tell me a Star level player in his prime and is still playing well not falling off in terms of their performance and someone like Ben Simmons that that player can’t get you any offers I’m sorry I just don’t believe it

And look if it is in fact true if there are zero teams interested in Zack LaVine if teams are saying we’re only going to take Zach if you throw in a pick in the deal because we don’t want to take on his contract or that you have to add

Alex kuso in the package but we’re just going to send you salary filler in return or a situation where teams say all right we’ll take Zach but you have to take all of our bad contracts like the Lakers are trying to do and dumping off D’Angelo Russell to the Bulls or The

Warriors trying to send us Wiggins if that truly is the state of Zack lavine’s trade value then you don’t trade him and know I said before there’s no scenario where you can keep Zack LaVine beyond the trade deadline if he doesn’t want to be here as that’s a morale killer when

The team knows a player doesn’t want to be here but with the way Zach has been playing lately looking more engaged more efficient on offense and contributing in other ways outside of just scoring my stance on trading Zach at all cost has changed like as critical as I’ve been of

Zach and was all but out on the guy when he more or less quit and wanted to be moved I have to give him credit for the way that he’s handled himself and turning around his game more recently like if you have to give up additional

Assets just to get rid of Zack LaVine which is the last thing the Bulls should be doing throwing out more future assets when they’re a mediocre team then you just don’t make the trade you keep them for the rest of the season see if you can get his trade value back up maybe

The Bulls continue to play better and get to the point that demonstrates Zack LaVine is being a player that can contribute to a winning team and you reassess and try to move him in the off season the Bulls do not have to trade Zack Laine he’s under contract if the

Offers are garbage or it puts the Bulls in an even worse situation you keep him he still has 3 years left on his after the season it’s not like you run the risk of losing him for nothing in free agency like the Raptors would be with

Pascal seaka so anyway in short If there really is no market for Zach then no the Bulls need to just keep him but I’m not buying for a second here that the Bulls aren’t getting offers or at least have offers coming to them between now and

The deadline the offers may not be great but there will be offers for Zack lvan and hopefully if the Bulls are still wanting to move on from Zach hopefully they’ll be able to get some assets in return let me know what you guys think what do you think will happen as relates

To Zack Line’s future do you think he stays beyond the trade deadline let me know in the comments as always be sure to subscribe and I will see you in the next one

Discussing whether in fact there truly is no trade market for Zach Lavine and what the Bulls should do if that ends up being the case

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