It's a dick move by James if you ask me. To people in Cleveland, the Bulls are what the L*kers are to us--the glamour franchise that **** us time and time again. Could you imagine Brandon or Clyde in the prime of their career going to the Purple & Piss? Bosh is just ring shopping because he knows he can't win one by himself.
Nobody can win one by themselves. You seriously can't be upset at Bosh for wanting to go wherever James goes.
And Wade/STAT will team up in MIA, tell me something new. The real surprises will be where Boozer, Gay, and JJ go.
I'm not upset at all. It's just that Bosh is going somewhere to be a number two. I think that says a lot about Chris Bosh's confidence in his game.
I hope this is true, otherwise the Bulls might be looking at Joe Johnson and David Lee. The cap figures are all over the place. David Aldridge says they have the space to sign a MAX FA and 98% of another, worst case, but he thinks they have enough space (by his numbers) to sign the two. I'm not at all surprised that two of the top FAs might decide to see if they can sign with the same team. They know each other well enough and want to play together. Trading away Hinrich so the Bulls can sign Bosh is interesting. The Bulls had Rose and Hinrich at guard, now they have Rose and some D-League type player (or vet minimum type signee). Can LeBron play SG? Rose, scrub Noah, Bosh? LeBron, Bosh Bench: Deng, Gibson, Johnson. If LeBron plays SG, Deng fits nicely in the starting lineup, but the bench is shit.
With that team the bench doesn't matter. The refs will give superstar calls to three people in the starting lineup. They can play 40+ minutes per night and never worry about fouling out while going 75-7.
There's no way those guys play 40+ minutes every night. The risk of injury alone is reason to not overplay them. On the Bulls' 72 win team, Jordan played < 38 minutes, Pippen < 37. Rodman was the only other guy over 30 (32). The 2008 Celtics (champs) played Pierce 36, Garnett 33, Allen 36, Rondo 30. Last season, Deng led the Bulls at 38 minutes, and Rose played 37.
Sweet, so is the NBA even going to be worth watching from a Trail Blazer fan standpoint. No way we contend with the Lakers, Bulls if they sign these two, and possibly Miami, though, minus Wade and whoever there team is weak. Wish we could trade for someone proven.
I don't think LBJ or Bosh would want to 'cheapen' their rings by going to the Bulls. This sounds more like an agent using PR to spin the media. Though, if the unlikely occurred and a mass of superstar free agents sign together, I could see a cataclysmic shift towards more and more teams acquiring elite NBA players (sort of like NY signing Randolph after Boston acquired KG/Ray Allen or Dallas trading for Kidd except with bigger names).
That may be difficult to do without a permanent GM. Don't worry, though, Larry Miller is going to dust of the Rolodex sometime tomorrow morning and start making some calls.
Obviously. But KP wasn't going to do it either so it doesn't really matter if he were GM or we don't have one. I am just trying to figure out if the NBA is going to be worth watching for the future.
Of course, he didn't have quite the help Rose and potentially Bosh would bring. And having to contend with the Lakers is a bitch, Kobe may not be here much longer, but of course, they are the Lakers and will get someone like Chris Paul for the MLE or trade for him and only have to give up DJ Mbenga or however you spell his name.
