Regular season ended for a good month, Lottery passed, draft choices distributed: NBA teams have enough assets and certainties to make this time of year one of the most conducive to rumors. As a result ? We go to Illinois, to Chicago, to dissect the last noise from the hallway.
Zach LaVine – DeMar DeRozan – Nikola Vucevic: are we pulling the curtain yet?
Perhaps a little early to “hope” to see Chicago strike back at this Big Three among interested franchises, but a sense of weariness struggles to remain hidden. According to Sam Smith of Bulls.com (the team page held on the NBA website), the Bulls could experience changes “important” this summer. The journalist goes into detail: “I was at the Draft Combine this week and heard from an insider that he thinks the Bulls are done with that Big Three”. Which Big Three? The one presented above, which – formed in the summer of 2021 – has not yet justified the expectations of its management. A first round of Playoffs in 2022, then a vulgar 10th place at the end of the past season. So yes, certain mitigating circumstances precipitated this start of fed up: Lonzo Ball has been injured since January 2022, and the workforce was running very well in his first months of collaboration with the leader. But Billy Donovan never succeeded in reinstilling this desire for the top of the table in his players. Thus, at the dawn of a black summer announced by Bison Futé on the road of comings and goings, Chicago could well be part of the franchises involved in enormous trades.
There could be ‘significant’ changes for the Bulls this summer, per @SamSmithHoops
“I was at the Draft Combine this week and heard from an insider that he believes the Bulls are done with this Big Three.” 😳
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2023-05-20 15:50:00
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