Bulls Might Now Be More Likely To Trade Luol Deng

[kingkirk]

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/23 ... -Luol-Deng

From the Wiretap and KC.

Thibs is going to be over the moon.

Discuss.

[Hokie]

If/when the Bulls trade Lu, Thibs is going to need to be sedated.

[fleet]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYebxVetouc[/youtube]

[Chi town]

What will he fetch us? He has good value for a team like CLE but then they make the playoffs with him and their pick isn't good.

Personally I'd like to get a young player and a future pick for him.

[kulaz3000]

It makes sense.

Deng is a system player, a very good system player at that, but still a system player nonetheless. With our future being unsure with how Derrick's play will be, we can't afford to spend as much as Deng is likely to command, we can't be spending our that amount of our precious dollars on players like Deng unfortunately.

With Derrick most likely unable to be MVP Rose ever again, and him being paid the amount of dollars he is owed, it's imperative that we are smart with every single contract that we dish out from here forward. Unfortunately though, we aren't likely to get what we'd hope for trading Deng now, not when he is an unrestricted free agent this coming off season.

At best, you'd think we could get a lottery pick in 2-3 seasons time, but no team, no matter how desperate is going to give up a potential lottery pick in the upcoming draft for a one year Deng rental. No chance.

[kingkirk]

If nothing else, we've learnt fleet enjoys that album.

[fleet]

If nothing else, we've learnt fleet enjoys that album.

Taking club drugs.

[Tenchi Ryu]

Deng for Affalo

[Doom]

If nothing else, we've learnt fleet enjoys that album.

Taking club drugs.

honestly, we are going to get more than afflalo for him. hes a back to back allstar... thats how the league sees him and values him. us not giving him a contract extension only makes him more valuable because some teams could see him as a near max player while clearly we don't.

[Chi town]

ORL wants to tank.

Deng for Dion Waiters, chandler and Fournier, Dudley and first, Schroeder, porter, Derrick Williams and a first, Shane Larkin and a first, Thaddeus young and a first, parsons,

[Doom]

i am looking forward to us getting some new blood under thibs who can be actual contributors to this team. it will make things more exciting

[wonderboy2]

This thread is going to be flooded with unkowledgeable posters believeing this is good for the bulls basketball wise. But in reality if deng gets traded we can kiss contending for a while goodbye. We can barely function well without deng for 2 minutes off the floor. I guess if we do trade deng we better get a first round draft pick and hope that we hit gold and get the number one pick and get parker. But I doubt parker is leaving duke this year because his best friend Jahil okaford just commited to play for duke next season along with the top point guard in the class. I know washington,cleveland, and olando would proabaly do a trade.

[Tenchi Ryu]

[Axl Rose]

would love a Deng for Afflalo deal but i dont think Orlando does it....they want prospects and picks

i like the trade you posted up tho...i would atleast make call asking if they would do a deal such as that....but i dont think we would do that even if orlando said yes...since we would be taking back more $$$$

but if we did next year our roster could look something like

Rose/Hinrich
Afflalo/Ben Gordon
Butler/Dunleavy
Boozer?/Taj/Nikola?
Noah/?

[Axl Rose]

most likely we wont get much of anything for Deng unless we're taking back bad contracts...which im sure we're unwilling to do

we missed our chance at getting something of value for Deng when we said no to the Harrison Barnes deal

[Hokie]

This thread is going to be flooded with unkowledgeable posters believeing this is good for the bulls basketball wise. But in reality if deng gets traded we can kiss contending for a while goodbye. We can barely function well without deng for 2 minutes off the floor. I guess if we do trade deng we better get a first round draft pick and hope that we hit gold and get the number one pick and get parker. But I doubt parker is leaving duke this year because his best friend Jahil okaford just commited to play for duke next season along with the top point guard in the class. I know washington,cleveland, and olando would proabaly do a trade.

Our title hopes were kissed goodbye when Rose got hurt. Trading Deng isn't going to change that.

You realize he's a free agent who we're unlikely to re-sign, right?

[wonderboy2]

You all better believe that any deng trade that goes down is only for FINANCIAL reasons. And will most likely pisss thibs off, and will make us worst for a few years. Boozer is proabaly going to get amestied. So next year we are going to be without our 2 leading scorers(not counting rose) and 2 out of our 3 best rebounders, and arguably our best defender. Mirotic is likely comming over next year but do you realy expect him to be ready to contribute right away on the same level as boozer as a rookie? I Love butler but can you expect him to be the best wing player on a championship team? Everybody wants a young team but young teams barely win and when these young players finaly develop you have to worry about keeping these players. Deng leaving also forces butler to have us by the balls when his contract come up. And what if butler goes down who is going to be our primary defender on the carmellos,durants,lebrons,georges,joe johsons,josh smiths of the world? If we try to rebuild now then rose is going to be 28-29 when we have a team as good as this one when everything clicks. If Rose could get healty sometime before the playoffs, and we pick up one more scorer(ben gordon off waivers hopefully), and we get one more big(kurt thomas or a big that is waived) then we have a good shot this year. Rose-butler-Deng-Boozer-Noah, Hinrich-Gordon-Dunleavy-Taj-Thomas/Nazr is worthy to good enough to win if everything clicks.

[no1special]

Not sure if this possible or because I'm not 100% sure hiw trade exceptions work but...

With Iggy going down would it be possible to trade deng for Harrison Barnes and a 1st. Gsw has an 11 mil trade exception from Richard Jefferson.

Barnes could fill Thibs 40 mpg, he is not quite as good as a defender, but pretty comparable offencively.

Also, if we were to amnesty boozer next year it would put as at around 46-47 mil.

[Doom]

i think thibs is going to be less pissed off because rose went down again... i think he will understand the situation better. prior, he believed we could win a title with a healthy rose and then possibly win one again next year. if we resign deng to a big extension, say 4 years, we're going to be dealing with an old man by the time this rebuilding garbage is over...

just remember, we have one of the highest payrolls in the league. i think the front office might get this done and over with in a year or 2 and we will be back on track.

[Googjob]

If they're giving up and trading Deng, any 1st round pick would do. Problem is matching salaries. No one is giving the Bulls a good young player for half a season of his services.