Is change coming to Chicago? It seems. After a disappointing campaign that ended with the elimination in play-in At the hands of the Miami Heat, the Illinois organization has understood that they must do something if they do not want the next few years to be counted as disappointments.
Along these lines, and although last summer they extended Zach LaVine’s contract for five years and 215 million dollars, the Bulls have decided that it is time to pick up the phone and see what value their star has in the market; so much so that according to Jake Fischer of yahoo sportshave started polling some teams to measure that business value.
Although Chicago is weighing its options, the aforementioned journalist points out that the investigations carried out have a more exploratory objective than action; that is to say, no imminent agreement is in sight with the guard included in it.
As we said, what leaves no room for doubt is that they want to do things and that although a month ago there was talk that LaVine is untouchable, now it doesn’t seem like that; And that in the last year he has once again been an essential part of the team with an average of 24.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.2 assists.
In short, to some extent it seems that the Illinois management is torn between major changes or opting for tweaks to the current project. If they choose the second path, it makes sense that they would want to re-sign Nikola Vucevic for three seasons, who will be a free agent shortly thereafter.
Waiting for Lonzo?
Maybe. The journalist Daniel Greenberg stressed at the beginning of May that the franchise still has the itch about what would have happened to the team in the 2020-21 season if Lonzo Ball did not get injured. It is this doubt that makes them curious to continue exploring that path and wait for the point guard to return to join the group. It is not a bad idea seeing the great performance they had in the short time they coincided; The point is that after three operations it remains to be seen when Ball will be able to return and under what conditions he will do so.
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