Who's comparing players? I am comparing trash teams. With your analogy, somebody has to score on bad teams, correct? LaVine produced at a high clip after coming back from injury to the point he
led the team is scoring when with a minute restriction placed on him, if he league averaged 36, he would have averaged 22 points a game.
Let's not forget this fact. He averaged 16 points during 656 minutes in 24 games, which averages out to about 27 minutes a game. Those are
stellar numbers considering he was capped at 20 minutes a game most of the time. Kind of McDavid like, and that's with McDavid not bothering too much in his own end, also. But again, not comparing McDavid, who also received a bloated contract for nothing but scoring stats, either, with LaVine.
But, the genius of this signing, which those who actually followed basketball would know, is that the Kings put an injury clause into the contract that the Bulls wouldn't, which is why the Bulls matched so quickly. They let the Kings do the dirty work for them. On a hockey forum, we do know this, correct? Or are we just complaining for the sake of complaining without actually understanding the going rate of a 23 year old scorer? Seems like it.
The Bulls let him see what his value was, then quickly signed him to a number they were comfortable with with the injury term placed by another team into said contract and pounced on it. That kind of makes Pax look smart.
As for taking up cap space, this signing is irrelevant since no big name free agent is coming to Chicago to play in Jordans shadow. None. I mean, how many have come before? Boozer? Exactly
Funny thing is, with the rumor that the Bulls are willing to trade and waive Melo if okc takes a couple bad contracts, this deal looks better.
I mean, we do know how basketball works, right?