Wiretap: Bulls Hope To Re-Sign Zach LaVine At $14M-$16M

[JimmyJammer]

Bulls have all the negotiating power with little interest in Lavine so far, they should beat him up in contract discussions and if he wants more than 14-15, he's got to go. I'm a fan of paying him no more than 10 AAV, but I'm a bit more bearish in my outlook than most.

I literally doesn't matter one bit what "zach wants". What matters if what he's offered. If no club offers him a deal, what's he going to do? And Chicago can't "beat him up" when there's nothing to beat up. If the choice is "out of the NBA" or "back in Chicago on a qualifying offer" then he's coming back to Chicago.

Well, he and his agent have a number in mind, I'm sure. Of course he is going to take the QO if no one offers him a contract, that's not in dispute. 'Beating him up' is a euphemism for aggressive counter-negotiation in this case, should have been more clear. I'm talking about his hypothetical future contract.

Thanks for explaining how RFA works though, that was informative.

This article actually suggests that the Bulls are potentially offering salaries near 18mil range, which is quite more than what we have been discussing on the board and what some other media outlets have been saying. No wonder LaVine was laughing at Friedell on social media the other day. LaVine was laughing due to how clueless Friedell was about what is going on.

[InsideInfo]

This whole thread just makes me pissed off about the felico signing all over again.

Why in the F did we lock that dude up for 4 years?

Seriously... someone explain this to me. Was there a market for him? Were we worried someone else was going to swoop in an steal his talents away from us?

Now we are sitting here a year later trying to budget ourselves for 2019 and we are paying our 3rd sting center $8,000,000 a season.

[thewraith]

I was unaware that Lavine has apparently made a lot of money from shoe contracts. That changes things a little bit. It makes it more likely that he is going to take the qualifying offer even if it is not quite the right Financial thing to do for him just for Spite and cuz he might be turned off.

How'd he do that because this is the first I've heard of him making big money from a sneaker contract. If you don't have your own signature sneaker I doubt you're making that much sneaker money tbh. Its great compared to what most are making but compared to your peers nah.

He's with Adidas. 4 year deal. I think he makes about 10 Million per year off of that. Which is not a lot....but it is for a guys who basically sat out 1.5 seasons.

He signed this in Chiacgo, I believe.

Its about 8 a year and that's good but compared to others its just not enough to say he can be missing out on money was my point. He doesn't have one of them Lebron, Steph, KD, those sneaker deals that's paying him max money on top of the actual salary. That's what I was getting at in my previous post if it wasn't clear.