Lakers get Vuc -bulls get Ayton

[kobe_vs_jordan]

How bout the bulls take Robert Williams and Jeremy Grant instead ?

What’s it cost the bulls?

[Laimbeer]

Unless Vanderbilt totally declines to useless or has a career-threatening injury, he should be opting out of his last year. That deal will have him as one of the lower-paid 27/28 year olds in the league by summer 2027. He's going to want to shoot for a multiyear deal, too. I did forget his player option is for 2027-2028 and not the prior year, so my earlier remark about the salary of Vincent not being significant is negated.

I really don't like having that pick tied up, though -- it's for sure not a "second round pick" if the Blazers own it, and it still has a small chance of conveying to the Bulls as a first, for that matter. I dunno, I haven't done the salary projections for '27, but surely the Blazers can afford that extra salary and still give out rookie-contract extensions?

Constantly injured forwards who can't shoot a lick aren't in demand. The dude is a bad contract, albeit a smaller one. I'd be surprised if he's not on his last deal. Lakers would move him into cap space so fast your head would spin.