The Chicago Bulls are pursuing a trade for Orlando Magic swingman Arron Afflalo, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Afflalo, 28, has two years left on his contract – including an Early Termination Option (ETO) provision next summer – and front office executives believe the Magic are prioritizing a trade for Afflalo over working to extend his contract. It is unclear how the Bulls' pursuit of Afflalo would impact the franchise's free-agent interest in New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony. See more at http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--bulls-pursuing-trade-for-magic-s-aaron-afflalo-142632914.html
Afflalo is viewed as a swingman (SG-SF), but this is pretty much a recent thing...he's only 6-5, 215 and was a SG in Denver. Victor Oladipo is shaping up to become the Magic's stud hoss and he's best suited to play SG, so I can't blame the Magic for trying to move Afflalo. As I said earlier, I'd love to see the Bulls do the Magic a solid and take Afflalo off the their hands.
Afflalo AND a similar SF and some bench players and we could at least have a balanced team. Who's our bench as it stands now? Bench mob it ain't. D-League mob is more like it.
Afflalo will make $7.5mil next season. Orlando would likely not want to take back any big contracts in return, but rather get some picks and maybe a small expiring (like Dunleavy). In order to make this sort of trade work, the Bulls would need to amnesty Boozer so they're under the salary cap. No, your bench wouldn't be the bench mob, but a bench like that (Korver, Brewer, Watson, Gibson and Asik averaged over 3mil a man without any of them being a bloated salary) will probably never be seen again. You might see something like Hinrich-Fredette-Snell-Mirotic-G.Smith, which come to think of it, might not completely suck.
The Spurs have a bench mob, but I digress. We're nothing like the Spurs. So our bench is going from DJ, Taj, and scraps to scraps. Might not completely suck. Seems like the 4th year in a row of downgrading the bench.
Keep your chin up, Denny. Before you fell in love with Nate, he was a scrap. Before D.J. won your heart, he was a scrap. I know you're not high on him, but Mirotic isn't a scrap. You love PER and Greg Smith's PER in his one full season in the NBA was 16.1. You were Jimmer's biggest fan. Lastly, I thought you liked Snell and thought he needed more PT. I thought you'd be excited about this bench mob. I'm kinda crestfallen.
But wait! We're not talking about who will lead the Bulls to the Finals, just the bench guys. Lucas III never averaged even 15mpg nor played in as many as 50 games for the Bulls. C'mon, you're not even trying to be positive.
I'd be positive if: 1) We had a backup C who is worthy of 12+ minutes a night. Smith might be that player, but why would Houston let him go? 2) Our 6th man, who was Taj, is roughly as good. 3) Our 7th man, who was DJ, is roughly as good. I don't see any of the three are certain. It's all about expectations. My confidence level is well below 50% on those 3 things. Like, you think Mirotic is coming over. I don't. Bagaric is fit and tan and ready to go, though.
I may be of the minority here, but I would love to see Fredette here and be given a chance. Especially if we somehow get both Melo and Afflalo. With Rose in the game as well, only so many players to guard. Fredette could have some decent scoring games for us. That bench is not God awful and I would go with that considering our finances.
Chicago Bulls have had trade talks with the Orlando Magic involving Arron Afflalo/Jameer Nelson according to sources. [Sounds like based on these reports that they want to dump Carlos Boozer to the Magic while sending various assets back to them. Nelson would then be used in another trade such as to the Knicks] Source: K.C. Johnson
Our front office rocks. @WojYahooNBA: Orlando has agreed to send Arron Afflalo to Denver for Evan Fournier and 56th pick in 2014 Draft, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Hard to say. We were supposedly inquiring about him. Hard to say what Orlando wanted from us . If that information leaks, it becomes easier to judge.
I think ORL was dumping more cap space....using DEN's exception from the Iggy deal last year they only took back 1M and a 2nd rounder for a ~7.75M hit.
The Bulls signed a few guys late last season to non-guaranteed contracts that could have been used to give ORL cap space in trade. Tony Snell is roughly equivalent to Fournier in terms of production and salary. The Bulls' 49th pick in round 2 is better than the 56th that Orlando got.
