Saw a clip of Eric Pincus on Buha’s pod and found this to be interesting. He said this and brought up Caruso as the player in this context.
McMenamin also stated a while back that the Lakers tried to trade for Drummond at the deadline which failed.
Pincus believes that another team with somewhat similar mindset is the Cavs but that a trade with them is more plausible.
I do think you can argue that the Cavs may get over some of these hurt feelings about him. He got them the only championship they’ve got. But if he won more, does that hurt the Cavs? I mean no.”
Buha also said LeBron attended Cavs/Celtics Game 4 as Dan Gilbert’s personal guest.
Pincus also said it is possible Cavs refuse to trade Mitchell to Lakers and take a lesser deal elsewhere.
There’s an argument to be made that they don’t. And they may take a similar deal that is not bad but maybe arguably not as good as what the Lakers would offer. Just not to help LeBron, that’s possible.
by KingNephew
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Reinsdorf really is an idiot if he thought the Lakers were one Drummond from winning the championship. Or he’s the world’s biggest Drummond fan.
What has Michael done for the Bulls lately? He would beat their ass, year after year, if he could only figure out how.
Man lakers gotta stop sharing revenue with these bum ass franchises
personal guest? then they didn’t he put him up in a sweet vip?
I love hit pieces. But the Bulls are just straight incompetent. They’re not really scheming to “not help Lebron”
Nah, Gilbert and LeBron should help each other, after all Bron gave him his only NBA title and many final appearances.
The deal should be something like this, Lakers send Dlo (if a team like Orlando didn’t sign him), Rui, Fino, filler and a load of picks and they send us Mitchell. After a couple of seasons LeBron go home to have his farewell tour and Gilbert is going to sell jerseys like if there is no tomorrow.
Everybody is winning.
“you can argue” …
“There’s an argument to be made” …
These are speculations from “analysts” whose KPIs are attention and clicks, which controversies like these promotes. Don’t drive yourself crazy over them.
Any trade that helps LeBron more than it helps the Bulls would be a losing trade for them, so I would imagine they’re not interested in that, unless they’re trying to unload salaries. Which makes them like every other team. Which makes this entire point stupid.
Chicago needs to blow it up. Lonzo is never going to play again. It sucks for them but get what assets you can now. Lavine is the star of the team and his value is tanked. DeRozan also has little value. Caruso is a trade Lakers would do and they can get a first out of it. Isn’t that what Chicago wanted?
Small business owner here. No businessman worry his/her salt would intentionally hurt or infringe their business success for some emotional/personal bullshit like this.
The Bulls are just incompetent . It’s not some
“master plan” behind the scenes 😂
I believe Chicago hasn’t made any trades involving players in 3 years. They are content selling out the stadium and being a 10 seed it’s probably the worst situation in the league if you were a fan
1.5 million…
Bulls haven’t made a trade in 3 years. To think that has anything to do with LeBron is insane
People really care about this stuff? Trying to justify who is the GOAT with team stats like number of championships is so stupid.
At least in basketball they are 1/5 so it’s a little closer but having 4 shit players and the GOAT on your team will get you 0 championships.
What’s crazy is nobody “infringed” more on Jordan’s legacy than Reinsdorf himself
Lots of teams don’t want to operate with the Lakers and a lot of teams don’t wanna operate with LeBron/Klutch. Match made in hell for trades. Imagine if NO didn’t get the #1 pick for Zion, they wouldn’t pulled a Nets (with Kyrie) and waited to send AD somewhere else.
Might be true but Bulls FO is, by a mile, the dumbest FO in the league. Like born with a peanut brain level dumb. I doubt they are capable of forming a complex thought like “if we trade with the lakers they might get better enough to win a championship which will give Lebron another ring which will improve his legacy and will more threaten MJ status as the GOAT which is bad for us because that means the GOAT won’t be a Bull”
20 years since he retired and he’s still the most coddled superstar today 🐱🐱🐱
Aside from jersey sales how much is Michael Jordan actually an active enough part of the Bulls franchise right now to where anything that might affect his legacy affects their bottom line, this is a serious question
Lakers aren’t allowed to make trades because every team would be “helping the Lakers”, got it.
They also mentioned that Chicago just doesn’t do a lot of trades either.
lol, this is so dumb, why would they pass on a favorable trade for some abstract Michael legacy thing. Like how exactly this will hurt his legacy ? even then why does it matter for the Bulls ? What would they be losing ? Lool these media guys not only make up shit, they also lack the knowledge of how things work in nba biz
I’m starting to believe that we can only trade with Washington and that’s it lol. They even fleeced us with the WB trade
The story of LBJ career.
Right when I Read the quote I knew he was referring to Caruso.