Idk I know his contract is brutal, but we've increased our defense with Anderson and Melton. The Bulls are in sell-low mode. The optimist in me thinks it would be fun to see a Steph/Levine/JK offense. We would still need a backup center, and I am under no illusion that this trade would make instant contenders, but it could be fun basketball.
by Thurrsby
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No
Not gonna happen. His contract is a poison pill with the CBA rules. Chicago is stuck with him.
Unless the bulls buyout his contract, no.
We do not need an albatross contract when we are attempting to build a last hurrah team for Steph.
Has Levine ever won with the teams he’s on, or is he a player that just puts up numbers, can jump and make highlights? Honest question bc I’ve never really followed him.
Lavine is gonna be a huge asset and a necessity for us.
He’s almost as good a shooter as Klay, can handle the ball, provide wayyyyy better playmaking than JK, and is a serviceable defender.
We’d lose Wiggins in this trade, which isn’t losing much given Wiggins has other life issues to attend to.
MDJ is a genius though, he’s building for a mega trade a decade after Steph retires.
The only way it happens now is if the Bulls attach significant draft capital to it and even then it may be too challenging to pull off given the hard cap. Wiggins, GP2, Looney would be the salaries you deal to match with them but the problem is you’d need to move another player (probably Moody) to clear up enough salary to add enough wiggle room to fill a 14 man roster.
I think if they were to do it, it would probably have to be something like Lavine, Torrey Craig and 2 first round picks (plus probably some 2nds if we’re being honest) for Wiggins, Loon, GP2, Moody. Does this make the warriors better? Probably. But it is also a massive gamble, which leads me to feel like it really should only be considered as an absolute last resort even if I feel like he’d fit really well into this team.
If Zach and Wiggins got together I do believe it would be worth watching again but it’s just not possible. Still think we need a second legit scorer over a center but that’s just me
We need a center who can play d and put up decent points
Injury prone, inefficient, streaky scorer, below average defender on a ridiculous contract? There’s a reason he’s still in Chicago.
we need vucevic if we got for lavine!
That is very much not the move for this team to make.
He’s almost impossible to trade for given that we’re hard capped at the 1st apron. We’d end up having to gut the depth for a guy whose team won more with him sitting last year, no thanks.
Zach would probably be a better player in the dubs system.
Probably is old hat yeah…. as long as teams can’t assume portions of am outgoing player salary these type of players will be largely No-Go with players on 3 yrs to go on undesirable money. Wiggs is similar tbh. If Lavine were 30M or Wiggs were 20M they become very palatable. But being that the competitive disadvantages of exceeding aprons is beyond real.
Teams are more interested in incrementally clawing upward and hoping to catch competitive footing rather than go for the big splashy move that’s the situational equivalent of wil-e-coyote pulling lightning the fuse on a stick of dynamite that is tied to him and hoping that it rockets him to the top instead blowing him up.
No dude, it’s considered a bad idea.