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Bulls: Lavine and Ball

Charlotte: Lowry and Hayward

Charlotte: Make Lamelo happy by getting Lonzo and a solid running mate with Lavine

Bulls: Mega dump salaries clear over 60+ million in salary.

there's no way that doesn't come without draft picks... that's a crazy amount of money to try and dump on injured players. For me, it wouldn't take THAT much, maybe Portland's pick and some 2nds or something. But the premise isn't all bad

bgrep14 wrote:Bulls: Lavine and Ball

Charlotte: Lowry and Hayward

Charlotte: Make Lamelo happy by getting Lonzo and a solid running mate with Lavine

Bulls: Mega dump salaries clear over 60+ million in salary.

Will Lonzo play this year? Next year? Zach Lavine is out as well, and on really bad money. I don’t see why Charlotte does this. Maybe if you add picks or some other incentive.

No way Charlotte accepts this dump without at least one asset coming back

I think the upside of Lavine coming back next year offset whatever you think the current negative value is. It’s not like Hayward and Lowry are worth anything anyways. I don’t think there’s anyway Bulls would trade Lavine here unless Charlotte was taking on someone like Lonzo and Lonzo makes sense in Charlotte to keep Melo happy in Charlotte. Charlotte would pay someone likely worse than Lavine next year anyways even if they let him expire and could potentially capitalize on trading him when he’s healthy. I don’t see Charlotte getting more then a 2nd or two if any.

bgrep14 wrote:I think the upside of Lavine coming back next year offset whatever you think the current negative value is. It’s not like Hayward and Lowry are worth anything anyways. I don’t think there’s anyway Bulls would trade Lavine here unless Charlotte was taking on someone like Lonzo and Lonzo makes sense in Charlotte to keep Melo happy in Charlotte. Charlotte would pay someone likely worse than Lavine next year anyways even if they let him expire and could potentially capitalize on trading him when he’s healthy. I don’t see Charlotte getting more then a 2nd or two if any.

Chicago may think that but the rest of the NBA probably does not

Chicago absolutely needs to add here. Even before his injury LaVine's value was low, now you don't even know of he will come back the same and he's out the year. I think someone would trade expirings and maybe a late first, but adding Ball more than offsets that value.

I doubt the Bulls see much of a season remaining with Lowery and Hayward auditioning for new contracts and then who in the heck is out there for the Bulls to sign with $89M in cap space?

This year this is tank town for CHA but if their 2 former Bulls come back healthy plus LaMelo they don't have money for Bridges, not enough minutes for everybody like Miller.

Just no

Definitely no interest in cleaning up Chicago's cap for free. We aren't a charity and the players we receive might already be done with known chronic injuries.