[Marks] Chicago will create a large $17.6M Trade Exception. Chris Duarte is in the last year of his contract. He is rookie extension eligible up until Oct. 21. Harrison Barnes has 2 years left- $18M and $19M.
[Marks] Chicago will create a large $17.6M Trade Exception. Chris Duarte is in the last year of his contract. He is rookie extension eligible up until Oct. 21. Harrison Barnes has 2 years left- $18M and $19M.
They finally made a good trade lol. With the addition of Duarte we’re already at 15 spots and less than $6 million away from the tax so I don’t imagine we’ll use it any time soon if at all.
leelbebe
wish we could’ve gotten picks out of the AC trade. this offseason wouldn’t have felt so mid if we did
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I’m a Pacers fan. Duarte actually had an awesome rookie year and has sucked ass ever since. Tbh you probably cut him but I’ve always yearned for a world where he turns it around. Was a big fan.
Drclaw411
There is absolutely no chance that this trade exception ever gets used, and anyone who thinks otherwise is very much being gaslit.
xTorcheZx
Idk if the universe is saying something but I just went to tankathon and did like 10 2025 lottery sims and bulls got the 1st pick like 3 teams and second pick like 3 times lol
zerodius
I don’t know why some people on this sub are raging at getting something back for a free agent who was otherwiae going to walk away for nothing. The picks give Bulls additional assets they can use later.
The trade exception could also help later on – Bulls could use it to extraxt additional pick/s for teams that need to dump salary down the road. It could also help facilitate a trade for LaVine by being able to absorb extra contracts if necessary to help get a better return.
Every little bit helps when you’re trying to rebuild the roster. This team isn’t going to be competitive and the team made some bad decisions in recent years – now at least they are doing things that can actually help in the process of reconstructing this roster.
tallslim1960
HB is a good player as well.
zedrix_
Next off-season will be busier than this off-season.
Zach obviously is going to be traded. But it’s likelt after this season. Because most tax spenders were docking the luxury tax to reset the tax counter. Next season, they can once again go over the tax without repeat offender penalties.
Bulls will have Zach, Vooch, Jevon, 17.6M TPE and $2.8M caruso TPE to work with. Next season is a good time to retool, given Coby and Ayo still have cheap contracts.
MasterHavik
I’m okay with this trade as AK have shown to do work in the second round already.
SomeGuyOnRedditApp
It’s okay to call trash trash
Atrain175
lol how many times has a team actually used a trade exception
nalagang91
I may be wrong, but this whole process feels like an initial swing and a miss due to Zo’s injury but AK putting together a better team, and then him being essentially frozen by ownership to not sell on players/assets when they could. Now that he has the ability to do so this year, he’s done a reasonable job at getting assets back, and signing our players to value contracts. We should have sold earlier; but AK seems decisive when given the opportunity for better or worse, so it feels like the previous few offseason that ownership didn’t allow him to deal
persons777
Awesome! That trade exception will be very helpful, just like the Disabled Player Exception last year.
smhayes
Getting anything of value for someone who would’ve walked (and getting to do right by him by helping him get to a team that could pay more than the mid-level) is always going to be a good exchange
tremble01
That’s great. We can take back expiring with barnes and get a frp I think.
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Trash organization, trash ownership, trash leadership, trash vision, overall trash.
They finally made a good trade lol. With the addition of Duarte we’re already at 15 spots and less than $6 million away from the tax so I don’t imagine we’ll use it any time soon if at all.
wish we could’ve gotten picks out of the AC trade. this offseason wouldn’t have felt so mid if we did
I’m a Pacers fan. Duarte actually had an awesome rookie year and has sucked ass ever since. Tbh you probably cut him but I’ve always yearned for a world where he turns it around. Was a big fan.
There is absolutely no chance that this trade exception ever gets used, and anyone who thinks otherwise is very much being gaslit.
Idk if the universe is saying something but I just went to tankathon and did like 10 2025 lottery sims and bulls got the 1st pick like 3 teams and second pick like 3 times lol
I don’t know why some people on this sub are raging at getting something back for a free agent who was otherwiae going to walk away for nothing. The picks give Bulls additional assets they can use later.
The trade exception could also help later on – Bulls could use it to extraxt additional pick/s for teams that need to dump salary down the road. It could also help facilitate a trade for LaVine by being able to absorb extra contracts if necessary to help get a better return.
Every little bit helps when you’re trying to rebuild the roster. This team isn’t going to be competitive and the team made some bad decisions in recent years – now at least they are doing things that can actually help in the process of reconstructing this roster.
HB is a good player as well.
Next off-season will be busier than this off-season.
Zach obviously is going to be traded. But it’s likelt after this season. Because most tax spenders were docking the luxury tax to reset the tax counter. Next season, they can once again go over the tax without repeat offender penalties.
Bulls will have Zach, Vooch, Jevon, 17.6M TPE and $2.8M caruso TPE to work with. Next season is a good time to retool, given Coby and Ayo still have cheap contracts.
I’m okay with this trade as AK have shown to do work in the second round already.
It’s okay to call trash trash
lol how many times has a team actually used a trade exception
I may be wrong, but this whole process feels like an initial swing and a miss due to Zo’s injury but AK putting together a better team, and then him being essentially frozen by ownership to not sell on players/assets when they could. Now that he has the ability to do so this year, he’s done a reasonable job at getting assets back, and signing our players to value contracts. We should have sold earlier; but AK seems decisive when given the opportunity for better or worse, so it feels like the previous few offseason that ownership didn’t allow him to deal
Awesome! That trade exception will be very helpful, just like the Disabled Player Exception last year.
Getting anything of value for someone who would’ve walked (and getting to do right by him by helping him get to a team that could pay more than the mid-level) is always going to be a good exchange
That’s great. We can take back expiring with barnes and get a frp I think.