[Keith Smith] Nikola Vucevic’s extension with the Chicago Bulls is fully guaranteed for $60M with no options, a league source tells @spotrac.
Nikola Vucevic's extension with the Chicago Bulls is fully guaranteed for $60M with no options, a league source tells @spotrac.
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) June 29, 2023
by moogie413
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That’s…not ideal.
Fully guaranteed? They must have Lonzo on the first trip to the Wakanda doctors
Spotrac is reporting it as backloaded as well. Bulls really bid against themselves on this haha
Fully WHAT?? Giving a soon to be 33 year old big man a fully guaranteed contract is ridiculous and only makes him less valuable if we want to trade him. I see now why he was so quick to sign the extension smh
sad trombone
Of course it is
Am I in the minority who think this contract is a steal?
I know Vooch is old but he’s not an athletic center who’s career is is liable to fall off a cliff. He has stayed remarkably healthy for his age as well.
Jesus christ
I think people don’t fully understand the amount of money NBA players make now. For perspective, Tyler Herro is making 27 million next year and Duncan Robinson will make 18 million.
Those are basically the Heats 4th and 5th highest paid players. Vuc on a 20 million dollar deal is what they pay the average starter nowadays.
Rare instance where not reporting the guarantees right away makes it look better for the team lol
I think this is a good deal. He produces
Fully guaranteed just doesn’t make sense to me. Who are we bidding against?
AKME have been handing out POs like candy, so at this point I’m counting a no-option deal as a win. They were never getting a TO from a guy signing his maybe last contract in the NBA.
A Bulls fan that thinks this is a ‘bad deal’ doesn’t know NBA basketball.
Vuc is now the glue since Lonzo is gone. This is a great deal for the Bulls.
This is ok for what Vuc gives
I’d have a bigger problem with 3 yrs with the 3rd being a player option than having no options at all. Vuc made 24 and 22 million the last two years so a small pay cut seems fair.
If this is all the Bulls do I’ll be upset, but if signing Vuc to this deal allows them to make other moves that improve or retool the roster I’m all for it.
I’m baffled by the amount of people defending this deal in this sub, some even calling it a steal smh. You’re looking at it with homer glasses cause you just saw Vuc being a solid consistent player. But he’s about to be 33 and already in decline, you’re not paying for what he was, you’re paying for what he’s going to be. Is this was a free agent signing you all would be furious.
The downvotes coming already. Typical of this sub.
Can someone in here tell me where this fan bases heads at ? Do yall believe in this current core of zach demar and vooch and if you do , does getting a tablesetting pg and some shooters around core improve this team enough that you believe the team could compete in the east?