Leave it up to Sam The Bullshit Whisperer to always underwhelm us.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Luol Deng rejected a 3 year, $30 million extension with Bulls last week, league source tells Yahoo. Turned out to be prelude to trade.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/420441341114322944">January 7, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Even if he doesn't want to re-sign here, we have his bird rights.
We can offer more than any other team + can use him in a sign & trade.
Either way, trading for an All-Star SF without giving up any of your best, significant assets is not a "desperation move"..
We didn't give up 'nothing.' You really think the Bulls called the Cavs and said "hey, we don't want shit." We have them picks. But honestly, fuck the picks.. I'd be with you if it were only the picks..
I'm just thinking we're going to look back at this in 5-7 years and say "lol.. remember when we had a chance to draft Jabari Parker, but opted for that Deng rental? Yeah... damn.. only if we'd have known."
I'm not knocking the trade. Grant was told to compete, not 2-3 years from now, but now.. He did a great job turning Bynum into Deng.. All day long. Guy deserves accolades for the trade.
I just question Gilbert's steadfast desire to compete now, rather than waiting.
Well looks like we'll be fucked when we have to re-sign him and start signing our rookies to extensions.
Well looks like we'll be fucked when we have to re-sign him and start signing our rookies to extensions.
We will either have Lebron or Deng signed long term this offseason no matter the cost. Mark it down in your little black books.
Well looks like we'll be fucked when we have to re-sign him and start signing our rookies to extensions.
Team looks to be swinging for the fences. We'll find out if that's the one in the outfield or the one behind us. :chuckles:
The Bullshit Whisperer intimating Cavs looking to make another move. No idea what that might be but we'll see.
I'll fully judge this move once everything falls in to place but looks like a win.
Really like Deng, would like him even more if he indicated (in any fashion) he'd like to stick around.
I suppose that will depend on how good this team is with him.