What Are The Bulls Doing?? A Strange Trade Deadline In Chicago | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to more strange decisions from the Chicago Bulls at the trade deadline, as the guys discuss the ever confusing direction of the team.
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Chicago is so corrupt even the Chicago bulls are greedy major ticket sales mediocre results
Bulls weren't getting 1sts for Ayo or Coby ever. The issue is if they blow this up a year and a half ago then high end picks from 2025 could be in chicago. also drafting NOA and PAT is embarrassing
The only player that the Bulls really messed up was Caruso.. Giddey wasn't enough
This proves how great Michael Jordan was as a player and his team mates not management not even Jerry Reinsdorf ❌
And what the hell is Sacramento NOT doing…
I keep saying it Chicago’s front office doesn’t care about winning! As long as people are foolish enough to keep paying for tickets for a losing team why would they invest in a winning roster? I gave up on my city almost a decade ago
Reinsdorf won’t allow the Bulls to sell. Just like Jerry with the Cowboys, it’s about how cheap can I go for the perception of winning.
I live in Chicago and watch almost every other basketball team except the Bulls. I love basketball, but I don't wear Bulls gear anymore; it's in a box at the bottom of my closet. I have lost all faith that they even care about the team, so I don't care.
Laughing stock of all sports, I can't stand this organization, ownership and management is incompetent, I wish Chicago had another franchise we could cheer for.
Ayo is not irreplaceable but caving, and taking back Conley and Dillingham for Minnesota who was stuck stuck for four seconds is the exact thing they should not have done. It's fine to pivot to build around Giddey, and Matas, but fact of the matter is Ayo would have fit that nicely along those two on a good number. It's why you have to be willing to let guys get to free agency.
I think Miller can be a solid rotation guy, maybe more. Taking a look at Dieng is probably worth it for Coby. Maybe Matas would slide to a two, but they could also be leaning into tanking.
They traded two guards, for Simons, Ivey, Sexton, in that way it's sort of pointless. I don't think there's a massive separation between any of those, but it's like what was the point outside of bailing Minnesota out of a sticky situation? It's why Mathurin didn't do a lot for me, it's like there's not enough of a difference between White, Mathurin, and Ayo merit a shake up.
It reminds me of when the Wolves were in a similar boat with D-Lo who was not working at all, and Utah bails them out with Conley and Naw (who at the time was a throw in). They help Wolves circumvent the cap, and deal Conley again to bring him back, and give them Ayo for future "assets" which second round picks used to be traded for cash. Also what draft are all these seconds coming in?
The thing the Wolves/Bulls, and Wolves/Jazz trade have in common is Minnesota's GM Tim Connelly's brother was in both opposing team's front office. Same scenario, Wolves were screwed with D-Lo, and screwed with Conley/Dillingham. Bulls misunderstood their leverage at best over Wolves, or they have sleeper agents in the FO who's goal was to improve Minnesota for some reason.
I don't have a problem moving Ayo but not for this to the Timberwolves who were in a absolute bind. Better off keeping, and bringing him back, or letting him find a starting role/money this off-season. Ayo might be a little overrated here, his efficiency is a little like the Naz thing where it's three's or rim only, and doesn't have point guard handle, but good enough for today's current rules. You just got to know where other teams are at.
TURN YALL MICROPHONES DOWN DAM WENDY YOUR VOICE IS HORRIBLE 😊 😂
They are opening their cap space and stacking picks to trade for a big name this summer.
Bulls are about to trade all their 2nd rounders for cash considerations lol
As a Knicks fan I have always complained about how James
Dolan is such a bad incompetent owner , I do believe the bulls ownership is a bit worse to say the least
Everyone is Chicago is pissed. They gave a guy who looks like he can’t play basketball in Patrick Williams a ridiculous contract. It’s ridiculous how in a big great city they have a franchise ran like shxt. The owner is a disgrace who is cheap asf and thinks he’s above everyone. If you take away the Jordan years the bulls are the worse franchise in league history. Constant horrible drafts, bad trades and bad signings.
Chicago bulls fans are dumb. Its like the company is run bad but they still buy from the company that is runned terrible. Chicago bulls fans arent smart because they keep buying tickets and food from the concession stands
How can Arturas still have a job? I don’t get it? HOW???
Sell the fkn team! Fans deserve better.
Roast us!!!
What the Bulls did is beyond disaster. In fact, it's an abomination. A soft rebuild was possible. You could have moved White, and Vooch, and acquired some capital without destroying the team. Ayo, Matas, and Giddey aren't a bad foundation. But with Ayo gone, you lose an efficient scorer, and capable defender, which none of the replacements are. Why? The Bulls are cheap. Period. They just want average, league minimum players, draft busts (the overpaid Patrick Williams, a crippled Ivey, and Dellingham, whose ceiling is Coby White II), and second rounders they don't have to pay. The translation? A team no free agent wants to touch (other players know the Bulls are cheap), a "future" built on a hope of luck in the lottery (don't have to pay rookies right away), and maybe in five years, another middling roster. This is fan betrayal. Have fun playing in your empty, cold stadium.
I just love watching us be losers every year i root for whoever the bulls are playing fr 😂
I hate being a Bulls fan, the league needs to force the team to be sold. The franchise, city, & fans do not deserve to be treated like trash.
Worst front office in pro sports. The settlers. They do not want to win or compete EVER!
SAD and PATHETIC
REPLACE BILLY DONAVAN
THEY SHOULD GET ANOTHER MICHAEL JORDAN OR DERRICK ROSE
Tim Bontemps is every Bulls fan right now
Fans have been screaming for 2 yrs to clean house & then when they do, they scream more. I follow the Bulls and have for decades but I don't waste my hard-earned money on them.
Out with the old, in with the new. Does whining about it make you feel better? Do billionaires care about your feelings? Lol
I wish the national media would call out Jerry and AK to remove them its a embarrassing to chicago and frustrating its empathy already 😅
Here's an idea. Move the New Orleans Pelicans to Chicago. They can temporarily share the United Center with the Bulls until either Wintrust can get expanded or a basketball stadium can be constructed on the 78 or they can move in the Bears new dome. I think competition for money would force the Reinsdorfs to care about the Bulls product
When we catch AK & Mark…BTA
Espn is a joke
So the Bulls are just as incompetent at tanking as they are in trying to win?