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NBA Free Agent Diary: Don’t Look Now, But The Bulls Are Making Some Smart Signings
Keep track of the chaotic NBA offseason.
fivethirtyeight.com
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The month of July has been interesting in recent years for the Chicago Bulls, and often not in a good way.
Last year, they agreed to a two-year, $40 million contract 1 with Jabari Parker, though he didn’t fit well within their roster and he appeared to have few, if any suitors, at that price so late in the summer. (The marriage fizzled quickly, and they dealt him at the trade deadline.) Two years prior, some fans were elated and others were confused when the Bulls closed deals with Rajon Rondo and Chicago native Dwyane Wade, even though signing the former All-Stars ran totally counter to the youth-movement plan the front office had just talked up. (That season had a number of highs and odd lows, eventually resulting in both players — and franchise star Jimmy Butler — leaving the team the following year.)
But for all the well-deserved criticism the Bulls have gotten the past few years, so far the team has made a handful of smart, under-the-radar signings that figure to enhance their talented youngsters."
