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We really need him to go 7 today with how the bullpen is. 6 Ks is amazing, but 40 pitches through 2 is not ideal.

Ever since his legs started hurting

Is it just me or does Vaughn always suck when he goes back to California?

Either Lonzo's knee is gonna be problematic or they're definitely trading Coby.

We could be 3.5 back if Jorge Lopez didn't turn into a pumpkin. That guy looked like Mariano Rivera against us and can barely get anyone out against the Twins.

Nothing is ever easy with this team huh?

I was hoping we could save Graveman for this one, wishful thinking I guess.

Kelly is totally gonna blow this lead...

Thank god the Giants defense sucks

Oh boy we're gonna commit a NOBLETIGER

Real smart of them to walk Jose to setup bases loaded.

At the rumored price they would have gone slightly over, but I'm sure they could have traded Coby and taken a few million less in salary back to duck the tax.

I think they view this season as yet another let's see what happens kind of year with this core. Because if they're honest with themselves they know they ain't getting far in the playoffs unless both Lonzo and Zach are fully healthy AND they need either Williams/Ayo/Coby to take huge steps in development. I hope that's why they're avoiding the tax, so they don't start the tax process a year too early for little to no actual benefit. I feel like this org is fine paying the tax for a year or 2 but there's no way they're gonna pay a repeater tax.

Tanner Banks in a tied game lol

Cobb owned us last year, I'm not surprised we don't have a hit yet.

Joc should never have been granted time that late into the pitchers wind up.

lol yup. Although you'd think this just made Durant's price go way up.

They gave up a lot, holy crap. 4 picks and they're all unprotected.

I wonder how many picks they're getting cause that package sucks.

They're splitting the MLE in 3. Looks like they can still use $7.3 million of the MLE if they want to since they used Jones' bird rights. I doubt they're gonna go into the tax though.

So who are the Bulls going to get with a 3.3 million $ MLE? Jalen Smith?

At least Zach is back

This is just sad...I wonder what plan B is.

That would have required the Nets to participate.

If the Bulls want to stay under the tax, they can only afford to pay Gallinari something like $6.7 million a year. With LaVine on a max contract and Terry on a rookie contract, they have $9.988 million in space before the tax threshold. With Drummond taking up $3.3 million of that, there's only around $6.7 million left. Boston can offer Gallinari $6.5 million on the tax payer's MLE and seemingly don't want to give him more than 1 year. I'm sure they can clear some room later on in the off-season if they need to. All the rumors pointed to Gallinari getting at least 2 years at $7.5 million a year.