Signing(s): Kings offer sheet Zach LaVine (4 years, $78 million) - Bulls match

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

Tough call for the Bulls. He is not worth that and may never be. But the upside is tantalizing enough that they probably match it.

 

[MMC]

Tough call for the Bulls. He is not worth that and may never be. But the upside is tantalizing enough that they probably match it.

I really don't think they should. I'm more curious as to why the Kings think this is a good idea.

 

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[No More Subban]

Lol.. Bulls matched it.

Kings should be happy. Bagley/Fox/Lavine sounds kinda lame to me.

 

[dahrougem2]

Why on earth do you offer sheet Zach LaVine when you have Fox on your roster?

Kings doing Kings things, I guess. They dodged a bullet here.

 

[Asiantuntija]

Very stupid to match the offer. LaVine doesn't play defense and kills your offense with terrible basketball IQ. I don't honestly have any idea why anyone would pay over 10 millions for him.

 

[Terry Yake]

lols why the hell would the bulls match

 

[darko]

Lol Bulls.

 

[Belieber]

When I saw the offer sheet I thought there was no chance the Bulls match it but now I’m laughing at the Kings screwing up the Bulls cap for no reason.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

This is why the Bulls have been mostly irrelevant for last 20 years

Dumb move

Lavine sucks seriously the guy gives no effort defensively and looks like he doesn't care most of the time

 

[ChicagoBullsFan]

So Bulls will use in total 52 million USD of their cap space to 4 players ( Lopez, Asik, Felicio, LaVine).
This probably means that Bulls aren't going UFA marketing next summer.

But what else you can expect when you have two brain- dead idiots are running the show.
Is it a time to fire GarPax.

 

[ChicagoBullsFan]

This is why the Bulls have been mostly irrelevant for last 20 years

Dumb move

Lavine sucks seriously the guy gives no effort defensively and looks like he doesn't care most of the time

As a Finnish Bulls fan even i'm pissed on this move and i hate Zach LaVine to bottom of my heart.
Fire GarPax immediately.

 

[ChicagoBullsFan]

Very stupid to match the offer. LaVine doesn't play defense and kills your offense with terrible basketball IQ. I don't honestly have any idea why anyone would pay over 10 millions for him.

If Reinsdorf has any brains left he should fire GarPax immediately.

 

[Asiantuntija]

If Reinsdorf has any brains left he should fire GarPax immediately.

Definitely.

It will be extremely hard to bring all the talent out of our dominant front court because LaVine is worst team basketball player i've ever seen on NBA & doesn't have any motivation to share the ball.

 

[Voight]

Why on earth do you offer sheet Zach LaVine when you have Fox on your roster?

Kings doing Kings things, I guess. They dodged a bullet here.

This is the same team that traded a 1st round pick to open up cap space for a player who likely wasn't going to sign there.

Ranadive is the main reason for their futility. Their draft record since he bought the tea is straight up awful.

 

[darko]

This is the same team that traded a 1st round pick to open up cap space for a player who likely wasn't going to sign there.

Ranadive is the main reason for their futility. Their draft record since he bought the tea is straight up awful.

Uhhh they drafted a franchise player in Markkanen.

 

[Ivan13]

Death, taxes and moronic decisions by NBA teams.

Can't decide who's dumber, Kings for offering that or the Bulls for matching.

 

[lilphildub]

I don't think Lavine is a star or anything but how is he not worth this contract? I don't keep up with NBA contracts too much but with the amount of money thrown around to garbage players, it didn't seem that bad. I'm genuinely asking. Not too knowledgeable with nba contracts

 

[dahrougem2]

It's because LaVine is closer to a garbage player than he is a star player you build around

 

[Cubs2024WSChamps]

The Bulls match an offer sheet, for a player still with sky high potential, on a team that;

A. Isn't winning any time soon.
B. Will only make the playoffs because there's no talent in the East.
C. Isn't signing any big time free agents
D. Isn't signing any big free agents next year either because they are tanking
E. Is still young enough to live up to his potential before injury

And people are complaining?

I will laugh heartily when LaVine puts up 20 a game next year......

 

[Voight]

Said player has already torn his ACL..... need I remind you that the Bulls once had a player like that...... not too long ago either.

 

[Cubs2024WSChamps]

Said player signing this contract doesn't effect a team with no hope of winning a title the next three years.

The Bulls are tanking. The only way a big name FA comes here is if he's either on the down swing or the Bulls go far in the playoffs with this core and that's not happening.

LaVine playing big minutes gives the Bulls a great shot at the lottery next year.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

A Bulls team without Lavine offers greater shot at lottery then a Bull team with overpaid Lavine

Lavine as bad as he is defensively will have some good nights offensively so I don't understand how you can say having him somehow makes them a worse team

 

[Cubs2024WSChamps]

A Bulls team without Lavine offers greater shot at lottery then a Bull team with overpaid Lavine

Lavine as bad as he is defensively will have some good nights offensively so I don't understand how you can say having him somehow makes them a worse team

Actually, I just said that to watch you jump from one side of the fence to the other.

First you said he sucks, and doesn't care, now, he actually does care offensively, and of he does have "those games" where he lights it up offensively, he obviously doesn't "sucks seriously".

Amirite? Good job