All right Bulls fans...
You've all complained about the ineptitude of GarPax. You've all thrown out ideas for what you think would fix this team.
What are the exact moves you would try to pull off if you were GM? Who are your draft targets? Be detailed. Explain your logic. Flex your basketball knowledge muscles.
This is your thread to prove your worth as an armchair GM.
fuck it, here goes nothing....blast away!
id start with a trade of Pau Gasol and Felicio(just to make the $$ work) to Memphis for Jeff Green(expiring) and some sort of pick...probably a conditional 1st rounder.
id ship Gibson off to Dallas for Felton, Villanueva, and Dwight Powell(all 3 expiring contracts)
Send Niko and Snell to Denver for JJ Hickson(expiring) and another conditional 1st round pick
that leaves you a roster of this for the rest of this current season....
Rose, Butler, Jeff Green, Portis, and JJ Hickson with Dunleavy, McD, Hinrich, Felton, Villanueva, Powell, Brooks, Moore, and Bairstow
then after the season ends the only guys under contract still are Rose, Butler, McD, Portis, Dunleavy, and Bairstow...leaving the Bulls with aprox. 24 Mil in cap space before the salary cap goes up any even.
Free Agency - Step 1...Offer Durant a max deal. kind of a no brainer, but also a long shot. so plan B would be to sign some solid players to decent team friendly deals. sign 2 or 3 guys such as...
Jeff Green, Timofey Mozgov, Jamal Crawford, Joakim Noah, Ryan Anderson, Al Jefferson, etc...ideally get a wing and a big. if done right you get both and still have around 15 mil or so in cap room.
Draft time is a lot tougher to say what I "would" do since its unknown what pick(s) the bulls will have, so ill list some players I like that kind of fall in the mid first round pick range. so I wont be listing simmons even though I would obviously love to have him, since odds of having a lottery pick are slim
I would really like to draft a PG, the heir to derrick hopefully. the only two guys worth taking mid 1st round at PG to me are Demetrius Jackson and Melo Trimble. other guys I like at different positions...Sabonis, LeVert, Ellenson, Beasley, Bacon, and Damion Jones