<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Deadline Dash</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Oct 31</span> - If the Bulls don't increase their five-year, $50 million offer to Luol Deng, the fourth-year forward said he would try to dominate this season and re-enter negotiations as a restricted free agent next summer.</p> </p> "I'm still going to do what I'm supposed to do," Deng said Tuesday at the Berto Center. "I want to be better than I was last year. It just happens to be my contract year, and it's time to negotiate these things. But my mind-set is to play basketball.</p> </p> "If I don't sign, I'll just go out and play. I want to be in Chicago. I like it here. I don't know what happens afterward. But the Bulls don't have to sign us. We're still here." -- <font color="#000000">Chicago Tribune</font></p> </p> </p> [*]Deng said he wouldn't agree to the Bulls' current contract-extension offer of five years and $50 million. </p> ''The deadline is just closer; [the offer] is the same thing,'' Deng said. ''I'm pretty sure we'll talk again. I'd rather see it happen.''-- <font color="#000000">Chicago Sun-Times</font></p></div> </div>
