[Poe] For the third consecutive year, the Chicago Bulls did not make a move at the NBA trade deadline. They have not made a trade for a player since August 2021.
For the third consecutive year, the Chicago Bulls did not make a move at the NBA trade deadline.
They have not made a trade for a player since August 2021. https://t.co/YHhOFoBIOW
— Julia Poe (@byjuliapoe) February 8, 2024
by howser343
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>Management has stated all along their desire to remain competitive
Can we call a spade a spade? The Bulls are 10-21 vs teams above .500. They are bum-slayers. Most competent teams would likely beat the brakes off of them in a playoff enviroment. This is year 3 of this group. What the fuck are we doing here?
10-21 against above .500 teams is not “competitive”. Potentially letting multiple veterans expire and not dealing other valuable assets so the Bulls can be a 10th seed gunning for a play-in appearance is insanity.
AK will say he didn’t like the offers he got, but every time he’s kicked the can down the road, the value of the Bulls assets drop even more. That trend will likely continue.
But hey, maybe the Bulls will earn the right to have the Celtics humiliate them in a first-round playoff series on national televison. #SeeRed
How is that even possible
Pain
This is just flat out not a serious organization.
Masterful gambit, AK
go fuck yoself
This organization is being held hostage lol this is a sleeping giant of a fanbase that whatever owner we get next is going to print money when they put together something decent.
I can’t believe the Chicago Sky had more trades this year (1) than the Bulls have had in THREE
WHAAAAAT THE FUCK
Lmao. They continue to be one of the most unserious front offices in the league. Wanting to stay competitive and build a winning culture is a joke. The team barely wins and no one around the league takes them seriously. This team thinks they’re the Heat but they’re basically the John Wall wizards smh.
CoNtInUiTy 🤡
Fuck AKME
There better be some European phenom that’s been rotting in a Russian gulag for three years that AK feels confident he’s negotiated his release…
It feels like because AKME came in running with a big splash (the Vuc trade, Lonzo, Demar) that didn’t really work out for the most part, now they’re scared to do anything.
I feel like Ak and eversly have it their contact that as long as they make a playoff game they can’t be fired. No reason for them to be in their roles. I hate to say it but I’ll take GarPax back.
AK next time he speaks to the media “Wait and see what we do this offseason.” Does nothing in the offseason 😂
We’re a fucking joke
[Bulls front office](https://imgur.com/a/nYWjXU4)
Everybody email Michael Reinsdorf and tell him what you really think. I’ve emailed him multiple times and he always responds.
mreinsdorf [at] bulls [dot] com
Wish my job was this easy.
“What’d you do this year?”
“Nothing.”
“Keep up the good work.”
GarPax didn’t make a ton of trades either really. I think this is just as much about ownership as it is about AKME.
Who knows how many trades ownership has shot down from GarPax and AKME over the years?
Reinsdorfs ruins two teams that I love. I fucking despise the man so much.
What was that trade in August 2021 you might ask?
Lauri Markkanen for Derrick Jones Jr and a (most likely) 2028 2nd round pick
They really don’t care about being perpetually mid
The media needs to light into him for this one. You can’t even say you like what we’ve got. Everybody is hurt, old, and we really have nothing to build on with this core.
I want everybody fired. And I want to go young.
Malpractice at it’s finest.
SELL THE FUCKING TEAM JERRY
The Bulls don’t see the writing on the wall. FRP are becoming more valuable in the league than ever. Only teams that are contenders throw those away to get talent added to their rosters that already have the pieces in place. You build championship teams thru the draft. If your team is in the middle, which is the worst place to be in the NBA, you trade away players that the league covets and stockpile draft assets. Either for your own use or to trade for better players. Nuggets, Celtics, Wolves, OKC, these teams built their foundations thru the draft and added pieces around them. Bulls have no direction. The front office is no better than Detroit, Charlotte and those other bottom feeding teams in the NBA. Just pathetic
Bottom 5 ownership and front office. You’re fucked with that combo.
What Trade today makes the bulls better?
Edit: since some of y’all are stuck on the word better.
What trade today did you want the bulls to make?
This will be unpopular but I’m not super upset. Zach getting injured guaranteed we get nothing for him. Then what we get 1 or 2 second round picks for drummond, same deal for derozan? Vuc probably similar.
Caruso would get the best deal but supposedly the offer was 2 firsts which means late firsts since it’s from a contender. He can still probably get something close to that this offseason.
I’d rather have some fun the rest of the season than get some garbage assets just cuz we can. I don’t think we’d be very fun to watch if we got picks and I actually think the players we may have traded help our young guys’ development. And I don’t think we get any exciting young players for our vets in all likelihood
Next year is the year to tank for someone like cooper flagg.
I wonder what the NBA record is for not making trades is. Usually even the worst teams will swap garbage for garbage, even the Bulls used to do stuff like that
This f**king team hurts my heart. 🤦♂️
Lmao, I knew it was coming and I still can’t believe it
Whos going to organize the billboard for fire akme
I fucking hate being a bulls fan sometimes
Not surprised, stuck in mediocrity.
Imagine trading Caruso and Demar while still riding the high value they had last season, but instead now we just continue with the same mid team that refuses to get rid of the old superstars.
Man I wish I could coast in my job and still get paid lol
i don’t think there was a lot to gain from a trade other than messing with the locker room for some low value draft picks. We’re playing pretty good basketball right now. It’s not the end of the world.
Get the hell out of Chicago AK, go ruin some other franchise
This is not a modern nba franchise.
The most criminal part of this deadline: we now have nothing but SHITTY options for Derozan.
Extending a 34 year old would be dumb and if they don’t extend – he walks for nothing.
All I know is this: that game against the timber wolves was some of the most fun I’ve had watching the bulls for awhile.
It’s weird how they phrased that as “for” a player, because what I really wanted is a trade “of” a player to empty some cap space and to maybe get some draft capital. I wasn’t expecting to get some foundational piece for Demar or Vooch, just wanted to get their contracts off the books.
What were y’all’s goals for these trades, potentially?
Officially out on AKME. Hey Reinsdorf, if you need a guy to do literally nothing besides talk to media about continuity, I’ll be GM for half the price.
From noted Bulls mouthpiece KC Johnson:
“Ownership gave the green light to Karnišovas to address the roster as he saw fit, a source said. There was internal discussion about selling off pieces and beginning to reshape the next roster iteration now, a source said. Instead, management pushed those decisions to the offseason, when LaVine will be shopped again and the Bulls face contract decisions on DeRozan and Patrick Williams”
Fire AK
And now we’ll see nets take over a playoff spot for the 6th year in a row.
I had no idea we could replace GarPax with a front office that seems to be even worse at building a team…..
This teams like the dude at the flea market that has all their items over priced. They never sell shit and wind up hauling the same crap back and forth every time. And everyone rationale shakes their head wondering how they afford the table and why they even bother