Poop on the Bulls and Gordon and KC Johnson too (for updating his story only minutes before the real story broke).
Now it will be interesting to see who' able to jockey for cap space to sign him and how the rumors flow over the course of the season. Of course, he could just suck and that's that.
Looks like Vinny is planning on bringing Gordon off the bench. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...ben-gordon-chicago-bulls-deal,0,7619552.story If we end up with some scenario where 2/3 of Gordon/Rose/Hinrich are coming off the bench (that means Rose/Hinrich/Gordon starting with Hughes/Thabo), Vinny will need to be the shown the door quickly. Unless Rose has made leaps and bounds this summer, I don't see much reason why Hinrich/Gordon shouldn't start in the backcourt to start the year. I hope Vinny doesn't try the Gordon 6th man thing. If he does, I will have to complain about how Vinny was supposed to come in without any predecieved conceptions.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/basketball/bulls/1197460,CST-SPT-bull02.article What the hell is wrong with Jerry Reinsdorf? This has nothing to do with John Paxson, since he would probably have went pretty far into the luxury tax to resign Ben (not that the Bulls even had to do that). Looks like Ben wasn't negotiating with the Bulls at the end, but was negotiating with the Heat, who were negotiating with the Bulls.
I don't see any reason to conclude it was Pax or Reinsdorf, except to make partisans of one of those guys feel better. Either way it's pretty stupid.
where do you see him ending up next year? i believe memphis, okc, maybe miami, and the blazers will have some cap room.
Call up John Paxson and make the offer! I'd take it for sure, because at this point there's no way in hell Gordon is coming back and Bayless looks like a young Gordon.
Pulling the offer is super lame. At least IMO, we ought to be about something more than just the laundry. Gordon played a big part in our resurgence from utter craptitude. As such, he’s a part of who “the Bulls” are to me as a fan. He’s been a big part of the turnaround, and I don’t want to see him gone, nor do I like the approach the Bulls have taken with him. I mean, I understand if a guy is just at complete loggerheads with the team’s future. Like Skiles. I appreciate Skiles role in winning, but he was allowed to run amok and was a roadblock to progress at the end. But this is not the case here. Gordon is a quality SG and as far as I can tell, a pretty good fit going forward. Likewise Chandler. I don’t like seeing guys that I’ve come to like and root for get the shaft. Simple as that. It’s even worse when it looks short-sighted going forward.
