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We should get Jordan Crawford so he can tell Melo that KG f***ed his wife.

Bucks are $13 million under the cap. Any chance we can trade Boozer for OJ Mayo?

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 04:19 PM) Didn't see this reported. Shouldn't surprise anyone that we at least reached out to the agent. Silvy@WaddleandSilvy Today's guests: @ramonashelburne 3pm. She reported that the #Bulls met w/ Lebron's agent. @NickFriedell 5pm. Well, they at least tried. LeBron wasn't going anywhere but Cleveland. Nothing could have changed his mind.

Randolph will be traded to Orlando along with 2 second round picks.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 12:06 PM) I was in Cleveland this weekend for the Sox series. People were chanting his name on the street, yelling it from cars and selling the most ridiculous shirts. There was "The Return" shirt, "For6iven", "The Kingdom Restored" and a mesh of Lebron's face with the Chief Wahoo logo (Yep, really). It was nuts. Those Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism videos d it right...their economy is based on LeBron James.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 11:48 AM) The Bulls need to get creative here and get some ballers who can put the ball in the basket. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=pa2wc5k Give them enough picks here to make the move worthwhile on their end. Should leave us within the cap assuming you dump Dunleavy. Probably unrealistic. Probably cap stupid and wrong. But whatever. I'm too busy at work today to do match. Hell, the trade machine might even be wrong for all I know. /useless post I doubt the Sixers would trade Wroten.

Gasol getting 3 years $22 million per Wojnarowski. Not real excited about Gasol getting 3 years. :\

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 10:21 AM) Sam Smith article indicated Hinrich took less then BAE. No one knows the money situation for certain yet though. Hinrich got 2.7 million.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 14, 2014 -> 06:57 AM) Same here. Along with throwing bats. It seems pitchers are sensitive to batters hitting up the middle in our league. I don't do it unless I have no choice but to try it but some pitchers feel like every batter should apologize for going up the middle. If we are up a lot, we don't do it. We were getting killed one game and the other team kept hitting it hard back at our pitcher and we were getting pissed. They kept saying that's how they play but when you're up 15 in the 5th, I don't see a need for it. Try and hit it elsewhere. Teams complaining about hitting middle once or twice annoys the hell out of me. It's not like everyone can control where they hit the ball. One of the teams we played on Saturday got pissed at us because we hit one off their pitcher's foot. I mean, this was a shot, but it clearly wasn't intentional (we apologized right after). We then hit a grounder up the middle that bounced and the pitcher couldn't handle. We got two of our bats taken away because the pitcher couldn't handle the ball or get out of the way. So they then take the next two innings aiming at our pitcher. They had guys who would wind up and act like they're going to hit the s*** out of the ball right up the middle. Talking about how they need to get us back for those two we hit up the middle. Seriously, stop acting like you're 5. We didn't do it on purpose, but once you start doing it on purpose, you're the ones at fault.

I don't think we could have wished for better results from Abreu. .292/.342/.630 at the break with 29 homers. Amazing.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 08:41 PM) McDermott, sensing height advantage over Gary Harris, posts him up, grabs a foul and makes both free throws. He's a smart guy. Good basketball IQ. All 3 guys the Bulls brought in this off-season have good basketball instincts.

FWIW, Real Plus Minus hated Augustin. Apparently, his defense was awful.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 08:28 PM) Augustin gets 2 years 6 mill with the Pistons. God damn it. Hinrich over Augustin? Really?

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 08:19 PM) Just can't get rid of him. One of my least favorite bulls of the past decade is back. Good... god.. just awful. Only good thing about him is that he's a combo guard and he won't kill you defensively. His shooting sucks and he's not a good PG. At least he's not making $4 million like he did last year.

Hinrich's getting 2 years and $5.5 million. $2.73 million per year with option for the second year. Meh.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 07:34 PM) For those who care: Snell continues to DOMINATE summer league. Draining threes and creative off dribble. Doug looks much more comfortable and showing some creativity. Bairstow is great at defending. No doubt will be on roster...Will never play likely. Posthummus is the best. Well worth the 5 to watch him attempt to play basketball. Excited for Billy baron. Unfortunately it's NBA Summer League. Looking good means nothing, but looking bad is a bad sign of things to come. I really hope Snell will pan out though. Good to see McDermott shooting well after kind of struggling in his first game as well.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 07:11 PM) It's interesting that we've basically refused to trade Taj and/or Mirotic and brought in Gasol. PF overload.

Poll: would you rather have signed Pierce for 2 and $11 million or Nikola Mirotic for 3 and $17 million?

Houston is not matching on Parsons. What a terrible off-season for the Rockets. Ariza at $8 million a year is nice, but I truly doubt he'll be the player he was last year. He's had 2 good years in his career and both came in contract years.

Salary wise, the Bulls are more or less capped out. They're currently at $47.48 million if they amnesty Boozer and trade away Greg Smith (to Dallas). Mirotic will be paid $5.66 million this year, assuming his salary is the same all 3 years. If Hinrich took slightly more than the veteran's minimum, that's probably around $2 million a year. That brings us to $55.14 million. Gasol's salary is rumored to be around $6.5 million, which would bring us to $61.64 million. I imagine if they don't have anyone else to sign, they'll just give Gasol a bit more money than the $6.5 million figure (perhaps $7 million). You really can't do much with $1.5 million. Add in McDermott and Bairstow (around $2.5 million combined) and the Bulls are over the cap. So unless the FO can pull off some trades, this will be the roster next year.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 06:51 PM) You want the offense to improve without the defense takin' a hit. We got six white dudes. None of which are known for their defensive prowess. Gasol is better offensively than Boozer and he definitely can't be worse defensively. Dunleavy is more or less average defensively (good length). Just because they're white doesn't mean they can't fit into the system.

I'm glad they didn't trade him for a lottery pick.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 06:42 PM) Thibs defensive system will definitely be put to the test. I see a lot of defensive liabilities up and down the roster. Carlos Boozer?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 06:35 PM) The other way to think about it is that if he has a legit, couple million dollar offer from someone else, he ought to take that and run with it. Perhaps. He has talent, obviously.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2014 -> 06:35 PM) Haha not saying that, just not sure they put the priority on strength training the way US bball does. If you put it that way, maybe. Strength doesn't seem like a huge priority in European basketball. It's much more about skill, especially shooting.