Gooner

I'm not worried about the regular season, I couldn't care less. But if he opts for surgery he's gone til probably the conference finals, then you gotta get in game shape and everything. So if he can't do anymore damage to it, might as well just play provided he can deal with the pain.

There's a reason why Deng plays close to 40 minutes per game. He is really important to this team. And Jimmy Butler kind of sucks.

We don't know if it's the same injury Kobe has. It's a torn ligament, but the wrist has like 14 different ligaments, so it could be different. Playing on it is a pain threshold issue, he can't do any more damage to it since it's already completely torn. If he opted for surgery he'd basically be out for the season since it takes about 4 months to rehab from. We'll just have to wait and see how effective he can be with it. He's saying he's playing Sunday in Miami.

blaugrana

Mourinho's days are numbered.

Good riddance. One less scumbag on the face of the Earth.

How much longer has Pringles got?

It's not really an excuse, it's just what it is. It's not like I accused the Raptors of playing good basketball. Both teams were terrible. Luckily for the Bulls they bring great defense most nights which can be enough to win games. There's been so much terrible basketball around the whole league this season. It's painful to watch at times.

Bulls looked like they were running through mud the whole game. 7 games in 9 days will do that, though. 2 games left to finish of this brutal stretch of 9 games in 12 days. Still, holding opponents to 67 ppg at home.

These two bums need to get their heads out of their ass. $25 million a year to have these two sitting on the bench every 4th quarter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl5ge-wRQEM

It won't take Knicks fans that long to figure out that Tyson Chandler is just not that good.

People thinking Tyson Chandler would make somebody a contender.

Of course he is. When it comes to selling shoes Adidas is king in the two other big basketball markets, Europe and Asia. Plus the fact that Rose plays for the most recognizable US sports brand, thanks to some guy named Mike. When people see Rose running around in a red uniform with Bulls on his chest they can identify with that. Rose is appearing in commercials with Beckham and Messi, doesn't get bigger than that. And let's not forget that Lebron's image has taken a hit over the last 18 months.

OJ Mayo fell on to Randolph's knee in the first quarter. He didn't play after that.

lol scrubs demanding trades now smh

You know Adidas sells shoes outside the US, too? And outside the US Rose is more marketable than all of them, sans Kobe. http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bulls/post/_/id/6478/rose-nearing-lucrative-adidas-extension

East 1. Bulls 2. Heat 3. Celtics 4. Pacers 5. Knicks 6. Magic 7. Hawks 8. Sixers West 1. Thunder 2. Mavs 3. Clippers 4. Blazers 5. Spurs 6. Grizzlies 7. Lakers 8. Rockets

I wouldn't be surprised if we re-signed him at a lower salary once he clears waivers.

Noooo!

The economic climate is much different now than it was then. That's not hard to see. The players aren't "giving back" anything. Everything they've gotten they get to keep. Record revenue means nothing when the losses keep piling up to the tune of nearly two billion over the course of the last 6 years, and that's because the last CBA was horrendous for the owners. So now it's time to make it up. And there won't be any basketball until the owners get their way, simple as that. These players talk about how they want this to be a partnership, yet they just take the guaranteed profits, while the owners take all the risk.

It doesn't restrict player movement at all. Actually it gives them more opportunity to move. Under this proposal, when you're a free agent you have the ability to sign for every single team in the league, provided they want you of course. -Teams at or under the cap can sign you with cap space or the room exception. -Teams over the cap can sign you with the MLE. -And tax payers can sign you with the mini MLE. -Bi-Annual Exception is still there for non-tax teams. -Matching trades is easier. (125% rule up to 150%) The only thing this restricts is moving while keeping your humongous salary ala Carmelo Anthony, and soon to be Chris Paul. And yes the luxury tax is strict. The whole point is to cut spending and improve competitive balance. We can speculate all we want on who'd be willing to pay it or not, but there's no point until we see it in action.

Apart from the BRI, what concessions have the players made? Under the NBA's proposed deal: The salary cap is the same for the next two years and then it's going up, not down. Tax threshold is going up, not down. Salary floor going from 75% to 90%. Average salaries projected to go from 5 million to 8 million over the life of the deal. MLE is basically the same. There's a new "Room" exemption. Only the MLE for tax paying teams is really restricted. And that was only used a handful of times during the entirety of the last CBA. So the players are going to go to court and argue what? They have the highest revenue share of any US sport. They have the highest average salary of any sport. They have guaranteed contracts. And the NBA is losing $300 million a year. Look at the NFL case, a league that is making a ton of money still had the courts rule in their favor.

These players are fools. Hope they get crushed in the courts and end up having to take a worse deal. BRI in the 40's, hard cap, unguaranteed contracts.

1st place votes: Rose 113 Lebron 4 Howard 3