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Seriously. Can the Bulls pull off some similar magic?

G-League is good practice, but lots of dudes shine in the G-League. He’s still needs development time IMO, and I’m not even sure he’s NBA caliber.

I am quite enjoying the many variations of this running meme.

No fan wants the price of consuming baseball to go up. The owners, who face little to no risk owning a franchise these days, could in fact pay a higher minimum to players, institute changes to increase parity/competitive balance /deter continual tanking, pay their employees a living wage & benefits, and still accumulate generational wealth for their greedy selves and not pass those increased costs onto fans. It is a choice for ownership. The entire lockout was initiated because owners don’t want to share their increased revenues. Blaming the players for those things, the only other body who has a seat at the table to bargain for anything, is asinine.

I hope to see Billy try to exploit Vuc’s size mismatch more often and mix up how much he’s down low and up top playing passer. He is really skilled in the paint and not a lot of guys can stop him.

Nor does your vehement insistence that the owners aren’t stonewalling or stalling or running out the clock make it any less true. You have your opinions, and everyone does, but you chose not to see what is plainly in front of you. You’re the only person on this site that is so anti-labor as to blindly defend ownership to ridiculous degrees despite all of the evidence posted in this thread that shows ownership to not be operating in good faith. Your furious obtuseness strains credulity and credibility, and your defenses of your position insult the intelligence of those whom you respond. It is tiresome to enter this thread looking for news and see all the the posters repeatedly refute your anti-player nonsense only for you to resort to insult, false assertions, and twisting of words to deflect from what you clearly see but refuse to acknowledge. None of this is normal negotiating despite how adamantly you claim it is. Public support is not on ownership’s side. You are free to die on your hill, but goddamn, please stop insulting the intelligence of even the most nominally informed baseball fans in regards to how ownership has operated since before they themselves initiated an entirely unnecessary lockout. It’s tired. /rant

Right, qualifying caveats. Take the statement at face value though coupled with their actions all winter and its truth is greatly diminished.

I see an Ibaka buyout before anything else. Unless they can find a taker for Batum without attaching assets.

Yeah, agree with you on Poeltl. Good get as a backup C, but I don't think he fits as a PF or playing with Vuc.

Poeltl would be a nice get, but he doesn't solve the hole at PF and I doubt he can play with Vuc. Covington going to LA is kind of a bummer as I think he would fit in nicely here.

The first sentence couldn't be further from the truth.