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Lakers Back Out Of Zach LaVine Market | KC Johnson Reports Bulls Could Trade Lonzo Ball’s Contract



Lakers Back Out Of Zach LaVine Market | KC Johnson Reports Bulls Could Trade Lonzo Ball’s Contract

You found yourself on another episode of Locked on bulls on today’s episode me and Pat are going to break down uh wi horse giving another update on the Lakers in their pursuit of Zack LaVine Casey Johnson also backs a previous zo rumor that he could be included in

Trades and Pascal yakum to the Indiana Pacers I don’t like that for the Bulls we’re going to get into all that and more right after this you are locked on bulls your daily podcast on the Chicago Bulls part of the locked on podcast Network your team every Day thank you for tuning in locked on bulls member of the locked on podcast Network we’re at your team every single day that’s Pat the designer host and creator of the windy city Breeze and host of the Chicago Bears podcast over at ESPN 1000 I’m Hayes host creator of

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Cycle of the Los Angeles Lakers in Zack LaVine they’re in they’re out they’re back in they’re back out Brian windhorse recently updated saying that he does not expect the Los Angeles Lakers to trade for Zack LaVine okay cool how do you feel about it Pat

Uh I mean listen I I think that’s kind of where we’re at in the the conversation we had this conversation on today’s episode of the uh Bree Sports Talk daily right where you know Zach is is it seems like is the consolation prize we know that they’re now in on

Desante Murray we know that you know other teams are in on Pascal seak now with the Pascal trade possibly going in maybe Zach is a or good or uh possibly being worked out here which the numbers on that are crazy brother uh but maybe maybe Zach is you know the constellation

Prize for a team a little bit sooner here but I mean listen like it it’s it sucks to say that we’re kind of here where you almost look at Zack LaVine as a guy that people don’t value and and like we said before right AK somewhat shot himself in the foot by

Going with continuity because you’re never going to get that package that the New York Knicks were willing to offer you for Zack LaVine last season you’ll never see anything close to that again and I I made this comparison off mic I also made it on on that same episode of

The Breeze right is that doesn’t it feel like Zack LaVine is kind of Brandon Marshall a player that is incredibly talented a player that is absolutely Elite at what he can do offensively he’s a player that when locked in can be a really good Defender so you see all the positives and yet

This guy’s never been a part of a winning situation right you look at B Marsh B Marsh has never won a playoff game in his life I don’t even believe he’s been in the playoffs so maybe Zach has a leg up on him on that situation but like it

Just feels like there’s kind of this the rest of the team sees the value that he br rings but don’t believe he’s worth what the Bulls are asking and that puts the Bulls in a bad situation here yeah I mean I think when it comes

Down well I guess in a bad situation if they’re still hoping like we knew this like to at this point like I said it only a couple episodes ago if he gets moved it’s as a consolation prize that’s it and and and I I don’t mean that to to

Crap on Zack because I I still like Zack LaVine as a player and I think if Zach is no longer miscast as a one when he goes to a team with the solid coach he’s a number two or even solid three he’s going to have he’s going to have a good

Part of rest of this contract out but at the end of the day it just comes down to this teams are now going to be more selective of what they do and what they trade for with the new the new uh rules and that doesn’t mean Zach Can’t Be

Moved at all I see a lot of people miss talking about what the new uh luy tax rules are and things like that basically it right now would be the time where teams would want to absorb salary if they’re okay with paying the luxury tax because they’re not going to be able to

If they keep being in that second second tax apron so um I still think Zach’s going to move but the bull we we know the Bulls aren’t G to get an amazing deal back for Zack it’s not gonna happen and I think this is the tough part right

Because we also got that report that Jerry Ryan dorf was one of the people vetoing deals like yeah you’re you’re not even at at this point right are you even getting a deal that you feel is more than just matching salaries that’s a great question because

I think it it it depends right because I think either way the Bulls are going to get quality depth pieces back but if you’re looking for anybody who’s nearing or even even has the near the ceiling of Zack LaVine you’re not going to get that and that’s okay right that’s okay when

You when you’re soon as a trade demand comes out on top of the other things the market other things like that you at that point knew you weren’t like we talked about this many times you passed on the New York Knicks deal at last trade deadline you’re never going to get

That that that type of deal back it’s just not coming for you yeah and I think that’s the part where you you feel like right like maybe you’re in between a rock and a hard place and you have no choice but to just go out there and take

Whatever’s available right like with the Lakers backing out of Zack LaVine the Lakers were the team that felt the most interested in Zack LaVine now the one thing that I do want people to think about and I you know I’ve talked about this a couple of times is there’s some

Teams out there that you can still move Zack LaVine to but you’re taking probably on some contracts that aren’t worth the players that you’re getting back or some guys that are just role playing depth pieces because there are still teams out there that you you pretty much can say aren’t going to be

Able to get free agents to come there the the greatest quote that I’ve heard in prayers the coup because it’s gonna be a long time before he sees a winning team in that Pistons organization again uh I I forget who it was I think it was

On the same wior podcast but I forget who said it uh they said I don’t believe that free agency is an option for the Detroit pist what like like an entire an entire route to get players an entire like but you gotta ask yourself major part of the off seon who

Really would sign with the Detroit Pistons listen you thought you got to throw me a mty Williams deal but I think because of that reason right maybe the Pistons are a team that would be interested in Zack LaVine because they’re looking at it and saying listen

Maybe Zack LaVine can’t get us to you know uh six wins but we’re winning three games can he get us to 38 can he make us competitive in East game like you have to think there are teams that are worse off than the Bulls right now because

They’re so far the other direction and there’s nothing but ineptitude in the organization as a whole at least we’re just kind of like in the middle we see young players that are starting to develop in the right place and maybe there’s some ineptitude above we at least know there’s

Ineptitude at the very top of this whole thing but we won’t speak on that we’ll never be on his network but uh I just like there is still those teams that you have to be looking at you have to be picking up the phone and saying Hey

Listen you’re never going to get anybody to come down there why don’t you get somebody that you know if you make him at least the number two on your team but probably the number one because you have nobody else down there you’re gonna get 25 to 30 points a game you’ll get fans

In your building you’ll get things that you right now nobody showing up to watch Zack LaVine play basketball in the Detroit Pistons they showed up to watch Blake Griffin play ball basketball on the Detroit Pistons and Blake didn’t have no legs left bro there was Blake Griff and Derrick Rose and the

Combination of the two of them had a pair of good knees but no and they still weren’t they they weren’t selling out that Stadium nobody was showing up to those games now they made the playoffs then they was selling out hey but that was the team that was winning you can

Add Zack LaVine to the Pistons they not go make the playoffs playoffs Hey Hey listen not this year but you get hope playoff playoffs I don’t even have that on here no more I used still have Playoffs bro what happened to Playoffs bro that’s tough but yeah dog like it’s

It’s you the Pistons are the Pistons are better off just sucking and hoping a young gu is gonna just you know what the hell I mean stop everything isn’t a pause pause traumatic stress disorder we are suffering from that as a community playoffs don’t talk about playoffs you

Kidding me playoffs playoffs I just hope we can win a game we win a game yeah I feel you you just trying to sell the Detroit P you’re slick there you’re slick there brother hey bro listen all I’m saying who’s coming nobody that’s a pause that might be that’s a

Pause PA the Pistons are sucking and nobody’s coming that’s what we said basically apparently Zion was a lot but with that said aren’t y’all glad y’all have us as a podcast host on locked on bro like who else is making potentially 38- win basketball that’s entertaining bro there’s no way

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Customers all right Pat so we heard from Mark Stein I think it was about a week or two ago that the Bulls could look to to use Lonzo Ball’s contract to move in a bigger trade well Casey Johnson’s come out uh earlier today and and basically reaffirm that saying that from what he

Has heard that the Bulls are open to moving Lonzo balls contract and a deal that’s going to net them something back that can currently help this team now this is a big change in mindset for the Chicago Bulls because you me and youve talked about it you know you talk about

AK holding on to Jamal Murray and things like that but even with that said like this is the type of move that franchises do make the Bulls just aren’t typically one of those franchises Lonzo balls contract is carried it’s covered 80% by insurance so that would mean that Jerry

Is paying out a little bit more money still doesn’t affect our salary cap any different but um what do you think about the Bulls looking at the situation with Lonzo do you think this may mean that maybe they have more concern about Lonzo than what they initially did about his

Return or do you think this is just a front office being smart and exploring all options to try to go ahead and move this this team a little bit further I believe it when I see it is this the logical thing to do 110% I just don’t

Believe that the Bulls often do the logical thing I remember like let’s be real like I I laugh with Nick the entire time because he sat there and and um thought we were tripping he thought we were trading everybody he thought he thought and I was like Nick there’s no

Way host of lock on Mavs he’s like there’s no way we’re trading Zack LaVine we’re not trading Demar like it would take a massive like you know everybody wanting to get out of here for us to trade everybody and then when the Bulls were like we really want to see what we

Have here he was just like I can’t believe an organization operates this way yeah yeah welcome to Chicago where most of our teams operate this way and I think here’s here’s the part about this if they do make a move like this why it would be so so big for the Bulls right

Because there’s me and Hayes have said this multiple times the likelihood that Lonzo ball ever plays basketball again based on what we’ve heard is like 15% right yes maybe he can start running jumping cutting all of that but with this type of surgery there’s one other player that basically had a similar

Surgery to this and it was just so he could run around with his kids and he played hockey hockey players built different that’s another thing that Mak B got his jaw broke they said six to eight weeks bro imagine a player getting Nico Miri got his oral socket punched in and that

Man basically was just like I’m done I’m done for like I mean he did play again but he definitely was like Hey Chicago I’m up out of here you got room for me I’m done man when he Bobby Porter punched him straight to New Orleans but

Uh you just to me right you look at the the situation with lonzo’s contract and I’d be surprised if the Bulls moved but I’d still be surprised if the Bulls move it because that’s the logical thing to do but if they do move it right like this open things up for the Chicago

Bulls this opens an opportunity for you to actually get somebody who you’re paying to be able to play on the court and and that’s when you look at the Bulls and US hearing that they want to still get win now players this is a like

I said this is a smart move this is a sensible move and I know Lonzo ball stands and fans are going to hear this and be like but what if Lonzo comes back and he’s balling out the fact you have to play the averages we have one year

Left to Lonzo balls contract by the time he comes back it’ll be two years and nine months he was out of basketball very slim chance he’s going to come back and do anything within that year and you now have the remainer of this season from the trade deadline and all of next

Season potentially to use that for a player that can compete and play now for this team it’s just smart and because of it I have the same concerns when’s the last time we see the Bulls do something that was just smart it’s been a minute and and I mean listen I think this

Started off as smart but it just didn’t end up as smart right like now you’re holding on the guy that on a team that you don’t feel like is going to pan out and you’re watching the rest of the Eastern Conference continue to get better than you that’s

Just the facts like you’re you’re sitting here and and even when you were moving in the right direction you would still have fans tell you right like that Zack LaVine coming back hasn’t slowed that process down hasn’t hindered that process in the slightest meanwhile I’ve

Seen a Bulls team that to me looks very different than the team that we saw without him it’s no disrespect to Zach it’s no like it’s just time it’s time you to move on it’s time you feel like you have a player that you can move on

With let’s let’s make the decision and and for me that’s that’s the big thing here you want to see this front office finally make the tough decisions I feel like we haven’t seen that right the tough DEC and I’m fine with I was I was somebody who was fine with continuity

But at this point right the tough decisions are when somebody tells you that they don’t believe it’s working believe them Zack LaVine told you by requesting the trade I don’t believe this is going to work this is facts now when you look at lonzo’s Contract which is what $21

Million if the Bulls were to move that now they could get really creative which again this is what a really smart front office would do I well team franchise the Bulls probably won’t because that means Jerry will be paying money because technically we could still use that

Disabled player exception as long as we use that before we move Lonzo we could still use that and trade Lonzo ball they’re probably not going to do both of those though yeah so I mean yeah probably not and at this point who you using it on I mean you never know who’s

Going to be on the bio Market but then again we still got our midlevel exception we still got part of our we got part of our midlevel yeah I think that’s the reason you wait though right like this we’re not we’re I we’re still in the playoffs

Technically right I believe we are the nth SE nin seed or the eighth seed n SE so right like we’re we’re still in the playoffs ninth in the Eastern Conference we’re in the play in right now we’re competing for the playoffs but what are you going to get right like

Even on a buyout Market are you going to go get I guess we got Pat Bev off to buy out I mean like I guess maybe if they does Pat Bev get bought out again I’ve heard talks they could be from Pat Bev by the way from it was on

His podc it was literally on his podcast he said you think they’ll buy me out that’s funny or no maybe he was asking he said I think he said you think they’ll trade me and so like I don’t know maybe maybe we get Pat Bill back I

At the end of the day I would be very surprised to see the Chicago Bulls go out here and make what to most people would seem like the common sense move um I guess what team is doing it though what team are you partnering with to

Make this happen like I mean to me if you think about it with zo right I look just off the top of my head I’m not going to name specific teams but maybe a team that has a player that they want to want to just get rid of they want to get

Out some money uh because at that point the team that trades for Zo and I look this up could still file the career ending injury exception of Zo isn’t ready to go next season so that could be something because we’re not going to file it they could do that so that’s an

Option so any type of team that has somebody that they may want to dump some salary and then maybe even to look to still get out of zo’s contract in the offseason is a possibility a team that’s that’s rebuilding could do that as well like there there are a couple of op

Couple of different type scenarios I just I don’t right now have a teams that would probably fit that scenario though it’s just a it’s a it’s a weird situation all the way around and to me it’s something you should have been done you knew he wasn’t coming back you knew

He not he’s not that’s the thing though they really did think that he was coming back last season I truly believe that they really thought that there was a chance of that I don’t know why but they really did think that there was a chance

Of that I I don’t know man again right in in the main reason why I don’t believe that this is going to happen is because they believe that he could come back and it’s not to say you’re not holding out hope that he can it’s not to

Say that you’re not hoping that he can make that kind of transition but at the end of the day right like this is a serious injury this isn’t just a regular knee injury this is a knee injury that’s held him out for two years and it’s going to be three by the

Time he’s actually able to come back Yep this is not a normal injury if he steps on a court and takes a few steps again we give a standing ovation so you go to you have to be realistic here you have to be real like

I’m sorry if you just want to give the standing ovation at the UC then like trade them with the stipulation that whatever team gets them you you you you cut them and bring them back for a game at the UC yeah I mean like you bring him

Back like you you resign him like when he’s ready to go to like a $100,000 deal vet minimum whatever it is and you let him come back and he stands on the court and you clap it up and you tell him I go to sit on the bench before you blow your

Knee out again I don’t know man I it is what it is man it’s it’s a it’s a bad situation for Lonzo all the way around and um I’m sorry it’s it’s a bad situation for the Bulls all the way around and at this point like I’ve said for the entire time

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Read with that said man a potential trade could go down in our own Division and uh it’s one that could be major if it happens and so per uh sham Shania uh he says the Raptors and Pacers are actively engaged in trade talk centered around two-time Allstar Pascal yakum

That would send him to Indiana for a package that includes Bruce Brown other salaries and three first round draft picks sources tell the athletic now let’s be clear not saying anything’s necessary imminent but hey by the time we get this podcast up for all we know

The deal could be done it could not be done for another couple of weeks but if this were to happen Pat how does that make you feel about the Indiana Pacers um I it adds to their already very tall athletic lineup I’m I’m I’m not going to lie to

You this sucks if you’re a bulls fan right now but I’m so glad somebody in the NBA is finally going hey y’all know tall dudes are important I’m so sick of small ball I’m ready for it to die like tall guys are good at putting the ball in the basket

As well bro you act like he’s a 7 foot he 68 bro he’s 6’8 their entire lineup is 68 and up minus halberton and Buddy heel they can put a lineup out there with Obi toen Miles Turner and uh Jaylen Smith and now you can have Pascal seak

Monet now right like it depends on what the final details end up being maybe Toronto says n you’re not gonna have all them tall dudes and I gotta play you in the East but like bro like I’m just I’m sick of watching small ball I’m I’m I’m done

With it bro these tall dudes can score twoo let’s get some more of them on our team cuz you know what every time we play a team that’s in our division that’s got tall dudes we sitting here like dang why can’t we rebound because you got Andre Drummond and Nikola vich

And both of them can run the same speed yeah but that I mean they’re tall they’re the same height as anybody on the Indiana Paces I’m just saying like they Indiana paac only other team with no true seven foot listen tall and athletic let’s let’s let the athletic

Say that there you go tall and no you started you just every time tall dudes tall dudes tall dudes Vince McMahon you’ve turned into Vince McMahon you look like the rock but you turned into Vince McMahon listen clearly I’m talking about tall athletic guys that can play basketball but at the end of

The day like I don’t even care at this point just 68 and up like we we running with 17 guards on the team Javon Carter just makes everyone else look taller that’s the only reason that it looks like we have a normal size team I’m done

With it no honestly uh the the Pascal um adding Pascal to that team is overkill it just is bro I mean listen and this and this is what what it is like when you have an aggressive front office because keep in mind this front office went out and got Bruce Brown this

Off season who just was coming off helping the Denver Nuggets win it win a title he’s come in hasn’t necessarily play terrible for them but not not amazing either but to for them to immediately be willing to use his contract to go out and get a player the

The caliber of Pascal seak yeah that’s just smart for an office bro that’s just smart and it’s and it’s tough to see somebody so close to us doing basketball so much better than us on a consistent Paces you know what I mean like that that’s that that part sucks and listen

At the end of the day uh the Bulls won’t be able to compete with the Pacers with the current roster that they have um I guess the the the real question is because I don’t view now height does make a difference but I don’t view Pascal as

Like a Leaps and Bounds better player than Zack LaVine I don’t even view him as a better player than Zack LaVine if I’m being honest does this possibly increase the trade value for Zack I don’t know if you get three first round picks but does this increase the trade

Value for Zack LaVine if you were to make a deal happen well I think the thing I don’t necessarily known the reason the only reason why I say that I agree with you as far as how you view Pascal seak so I’m not arguing that but

I think you got a couple of different things Pascal’s been ra relatively healthy since basically the the 2020 season where I think he that’s when he played like less than 60 games but he’s been relatively healthy other than that so health and then also the fact that

He’s expiring which is crazy that you’re gonna give up and he’s already come out and said he’s not signing an extension with any team that that trades for him he is going to play it out in free agency so that is a huge risk to give up

Three first round picks for a player that has told everyone no matter what I’m testing free agency he he he learned from he learned from kawhai when he was there that I guess I guess my argument would be is it though right because like you have a a star level player on your

Team already you have like I think now well I guess maybe it is because are you going to convince people to come to Indiana but like even to me right like that’s just the Rick Carlile thing we why is Ben mathine still coming off the bench well remember that he started off

The season starting and it just didn’t work it didn’t I I get it like you got to find some way to make that work but you know what though you know what Ben mat’s in the middle of of a sophomore slump though yeah and we don’t really talk now because I think everybody

Understands that he’s going to work himself out of it because he’s just too hard of a worker but people aren’t really talking about that he’s in a bit of a sophomore slump yeah yeah no he he’s he’s listen he was at the top of the world last year and and he was was

Living it up and and dominating um little bit Yeah couple points less this year um shooting a three ball way better though but also getting three less minutes so I I again it’s it’s and he’s shooting the three ball but he’s taking less only half last

Of yeah which probably is one of they was like stop shooting so much brother what do you do um I don’t know man like I I often I think it’s not an Apples to Apples comparison but I do think that there’s some hey if I have if you traded Pascal for

This we should be at least be able to get this yeah I mean don’t get me wrong every deal that goes down they’re going to be looking at that and see how they can they they could work it um and so yeah I mean and they should a front

Office should if you see players traded around and you you’re trying to trade your player you you’d be crazy not to and other teams also would be crazy not to try to use it well you know yeah him and Pascal are similar but listen Pascal’s been on the court more Pascal

Rebounds more whatever else it is there so we’ll see we’ll see man we’ll see what it ends up being this is a this does not this feels like you’re blowing it up this feels like when we traded away Bobby Porter like there was always just like we’re trading away a player that’s

Probably going to be pretty good in this league maybe not a star but you always felt like we could find another Bobby Porter and we never found another Bobby Porter the Bobby Porter situation was weird too because they traded him because he turned down in extension but he was a he was a

Restricted free agent yeah even if he did turn it down you could have matched anything it was it was so weird I it was a weird situation but I just mean from the aspect of right like you’re trading away a player knowing you’re getting dog water back

Like I think we got Timothy laaba back or whatever his name was lawa Timothy he was he was a French player he played like I know I know who it is I’m just saying the way you pronounce it as yeah laaba whatever it was a solid three and a half games after

The Bulls got rid of them um I’m trying to think who else came back in that deal like was that no because we drafted Gafford I don’t I don’t remember who else came back in that Porter Jr oh that’s right okay yeah but remember first but remember that first season that we got

It it looked like it was going to work uto Porter played great that first year that we traded for him with the rest of that remaining season and then we were hoping coming back into that from that offseason and he was terrible he never again I don’t know if he was terrible he

Was never healthy again like he what’ he play after that like a solid 40 games for the Bulls after that like he was here for like I think we didn’t we move him again by that following trade headline like no I think we kept minute so this is crazy so

Yeah we kept him for two seasons afterward but in those two seasons we did trade him in the 2021 uh 20 20 20 21 season but we traded for him in 201819 he played 15 games for us he started all 15 of those games he averaged 17 points

Per game in that The Following Season full season here he started nine games and only played a total of 14 then the season after that he played 25 games for us that’s crazy bro yep and and by the way he was on that ridiculous contract that Washington had gave him and we just

Never like I was like y’all got to get out of that like what do y’all do he end up being on the team that the Warriors team that won a title so he did get a ring yeah got a ring out of it got a

Ring out of it big shout out to him man um I don’t know man it it’s it just feels like you’re gonna trade Zack LaVine like we’re gonna hear the deal and it’s going to be like uh you got back you know the the ghost

Of deante M I don’t know what the heck I was going to say that I couldn’t even think of anything bad enough to say I didn’t have a good joke ready for that one uh you know I mean mean like I don’t know the the ghost of Jerry West shoes

Like that’s what we going to get back in this deal bro it still wasn’t good like Mike I had something out Hey listen if somebody could find Jerry West shoes I would put them on uh uh Patrick Williams for sure you got to get on the P will

Right no Julian Phillips oh you’re out on P will completely you just the upside the upside give it to the young kid give give it to the younger one give it to the young kid I mean he will is still the young kid let’s get about Man follow

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Haize & Pat The Designer discuss the latest Zach LaVine trade news this time Windhorst saying the Lakers are back out on the talented guard. The guys also react to KC Johnson stating the Bulls could look to move Lonzo Ball for pieces that can contribute now & Pascal Siakim potential going to the Pacers.

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34 Comments

  1. I feel ya Pat! I've been done with small ball since 2021 when AKME had a lineup filled with 6'5" and under players. And folks wonder why the other team takes it to the hole in the 4th qtr while the Bulls 6'5" and under lineup is missing 3 pt shots from having exhausted legs.

  2. Oh shit I forgot about opj. Yea he did have his moment here where he looked good. Same with Jabari but as with both they just waaaay to injury prone. I don’t think fans think about how bad the last FO screwed shit up mixed with how unlucky they were with injuries.

  3. I'm just tired of the front office acting slow maybe it's not a act but get this shit done and over with everyone in the conference getting better and all the bulls do is miss out of trades good pieces 😒 😑 SMH

  4. We could trade his contract for another player and always resign him when his contract expires if we want…lol

  5. How much of your future can you give up to help a 40 year old soon to be grandpa that could leave to go play with his son at the end of any season?

  6. I didn't think I would get to this point…..but I'm warming up to the thought of Lavine staying in Chicago if he can't get traded.

    Why?

    Because of his piss poor basketball IQ Lavine and his dependence on Coby helping him to play great….he's more likely to stay in line with Coby who is vastly improving both in his skillset and his leadership.

    As for Demar it's like the 1992 Dream Team where Magic Johnson refused to give up the "greatest player" title to Michael Jordan who simply ripped it away from the Magic Man.

    Demar respects Coby….but I don't think he's ready to take a less featured role next to Coby.

  7. Went from “Knicks have nothing we want” to “we won’t get a better package than what the Knicks offered” 😂😂😂

  8. I think bulls have competing goals. Win now and player development won’t work. I’d rather win 30 games with having young guys playing and learning than keep status quo to be a barely 500 team. I want to see Cobe, PWill, Philips, Ayo play than status quo.

  9. I didn’t want that Knicks package from last year either I haven’t seen a trade scenario for Zach yet that I’ve liked they all trash

  10. What are we looking for by trading Zach? Scoring? A 3 and D guard? Unless we're getting a superstar in return, there's not many of them in the NBA. Or do we need more bench players to sit on the bench? I'm not understanding the push to trade him, as if some player out there is gonna change the defense we play, the screwed up lineups, and Dalen Terry's shooting

  11. Hmm. That supposed NYK offer last year for him looks really good. Too bad it's off the table doe good now. Bulks hold onto a player too long and now they left holding the bag

  12. Zach is an useful player, more teams would go for him if was rightfully priced. He's not a $37m-$40m player. If I'm the other team, I'd want draft compensation to take Zach's contract. Which is the opposite of what Bulls want, because Bulls probably wanted 2nd rounds (at least) or a solid young player(s) coming back in the deal. If Zach was under $30m per, he would have been more movable.

  13. Im tired of hearing from Brian WindHorse! You keep Zach because you cannot get any real vaule for him in return! You dont worry about what the crazy fans are saying!

  14. Lavine was never that guy. He’s not top 10 in this position, prolly not even too 20. all star game isn’t checking for him. Team USA not checking for him, we made him trade available and teams aren’t checking for him. We lost the signing of him and now we stuck with him and tbh we (The Bulls) can’t move the needle with him even if HE (Wach Lavine) wanted to. He knows that and wanted to scape goat the Bulls like we were the problem. We instantly improved when we clocked out on him

  15. So crazy you included a segment on the pacers. Trade just happened and I’m so geeked I clicked on the first NBA pod I seen covering trade stuff. Lol shoutout

  16. Unbelievably, just saw Connor Bedard on the ice before the Sharks game last night…already. He was in all kinds of protective head gear and not even allowed to shoot a slap shot (because if he clenches his jaw it might fall apart or something..?!?) but the kid wouldnt quit begging to get back on the ice. The lower half of his face is freshly wired together and all he wants is to get back out on ice…hockey players are indeed different.

  17. So sicka feeling short, too. And lemme tell ya, watching our developmental Windy City team doesn't make me feel any better about where we are trying to go — cuz our gleague team has got a lot of REALLY short players. Did we not learn anything from Carlik Jones?

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