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QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 05:03 PM) completely different sport and structure both in salary and competition, if the White Sox got to those positions they automatically have a chance to win a WS, the Bulls can continually get to the playoffs as a mid to low seed for the next 5 years and maybe even pull an upset or two in the East, but still be very far away from winning an NBA title. Cardinals from '06, i believe, are a good example of a team scraping into the playoffs and everything working right for them and they win a WS, Marlins have never won a division but have won 2 WS titles, however when's the last "out of nowhere" NBA team that won a title? sigh, yes, so many mediocre teams have torn through the playoffs and won NBA titles recently. Like...um...oh...wait! oh...yeah. that's right.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 05:03 PM) completely different sport and structure both in salary and competition, if the White Sox got to those positions they automatically have a chance to win a WS, the Bulls can continually get to the playoffs as a mid to low seed for the next 5 years and maybe even pull an upset or two in the East, but still be very far away from winning an NBA title. thank you. The nba is just different. I feel comfortable saying chris paul will never win an nba championship on the hornets. Good but not great team, you just don't get lucky in the nba, in fact, they even extended the playoffs to make sure "lucky" didn't happen. Even the underdog "pistons" had 1 great player in billups, good player in rip, and some great defensive players, and then added sheed, etc.

rock i think you need to remember we are talking about the NBA. There's no real mystery who the best teams are. If you get a few stars, you're set for years. Look at the NBA's history. While other sports are moving more towards parity, the nba is staying the same. Why? Because there is only a handful of these stars, and they can affect the game they play more than any other sport.

do you guys realize how much money the bulls made in season ticket sales?

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 02:43 PM) this is the type of stuff that gets dangerous though...you can't overpay for some guys just because you struck out with others...im not saying i wouldnt welcome either lee or boozer with open arms, but max deals for those guys is too much IMO Yep. ON the other hand...what the hell do you do with 30 mill in cap space. I kind of wish we had our best defensive guard back.

all about the money? He gets to play with another legit star now. Also, how many times do you hear about an athlete staying with the team that drafted him as "all about the money". God, I've been waiting for this offseason for 3 f***ing years. NBA is dead to me. The salary cap has done the opposite of parity. This is a joke, i've never seen the talent centralized like this ever before.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jul 7, 2010 -> 01:21 PM) Im surprised to hear people upset at the way the Bulls have handled this. No matter what happens I like how Chicago approached this off-season. Really? Does it matter that we handled ourselves well when our team is f***ed in basketball limbo with prolly 26 other teams for the next 10 years? Yay, we asked our girls to the prom the most impressively...but we're still going stag. I feel sorry for all those that bought season tickets.

what the f***, i certainly didn't expect to go to bed and wake up to find it all over and us completely f***ed.

so, goin to bed, but gotta say i'm lookin forward to some nice substance-free posts all day tomorrow while i slack off at work again. I especially want some nice hypotheticals from Bucher such as : "Lebron done deal to chicago" then "I meant if Chicago was his hometown and he was drafted by them already, and still had noah and rose it would be a done deal, if i was him."

I'm just saying, it's 2010. There is more efficient ways of doing basketball operations.

God, watching this team, i just don't get it (well, i do, the pitching) but i love it. lillibridge playing like ...a real player, vizquel kicking ass. Beckham sucking the world up. I would never have guessed this was the lineups that would turn it around.

i don't think they meant to throw rios a straight fastball down the middle.

if i was the bulls i'd have asked lebron to masturbate into a cup during their interview, steal an egg from candace parker, and find a nice surrogate to make a nice play for the 2035 free agency season with us having the major advantage in having conceived chairman craig - king of thieves, best basketball player in the worlds.

what? robots are awesome, especially if they have feelings. I think oz really wants to win this one. nice k jj rhyme time

maybe vinny learned how to use a timeout this offseason.

Kotsay with an uncharacteristic grounder to 2b.

f*** THAT SHOULDA BEEN A 2 RUN HOMER!

RIOS!

after the past 6 years I have to say I'm not used to a pitcher that has injuries throughout the season

I mean, is ESPN making it an hour special or is lebron clearing an hour for his special. If dude declares at 950 pm i'll be pissed, but if it's just ESPN...dudes make 3 hours a day for skip bayless, this has way more substance than normal. That said...i'm resigned to our fate of boozer. As for someone saying what is the bulls problem in wooing free agents...I mean, it's just hard. In 2000, who the hell would have come here to play on that team? I mean, is there even a current NBA team as bad as that 2000 team? It's easier to keep a superstar than it is to recruit. Gasol-KG-Allen etc, these are the results of trades of a team blowing up and starting over. I don't know, I just don't think this has anything to do with the bulls, just circumstance. Rose is a great player and we were really lucky to get that #1 pick, but we'd be even more lucky if we didn't make that Jalen Rose trade and decided to really suck until 2003 so we could've gotten melo wade or bron. But instead we've just been pretty solid for the past 6 years, in the east. It's a terrible limbo that probably won't end soon unless we take advantage of a team managing poorly and needing to dump a star.

so when garnett and allen joined pierce in boston they didn't know they'd play for a championship? They must have been pissed.

that just sounds like bucher saying "I'm talking!"

I hope Leo Burnett double-dog dares Lebron, then there will be no turning back.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jul 6, 2010 -> 08:37 PM) I think we dont have ANY IDEA if its an 80-90 pct of him not coming here. LOL We dont know or have any idea because no one knows but Lebron. That might be the figure in your own mind from reading tweets but thats not logical IMO. i just feel a lot like i did around saturday when we were trying to sign damon. It was a ton of favorable news at first and it seemed very likely, but the longer it goes on the less likely i see it as happening.

kind of like with every free agent chase/big trade, i feel like the longer it goes on, the less likely it is to happen. If Wade/Bron declared saturday it was going to be Chicago, that was the time. The longer it waits, the less it feels like anything good will come out of this. And I second the thoughts that after so many teams were structuring their teams deals specifically for this '10 offseason, it's a huge blow to have nothing shakeup and just have another year of celts-lakers.