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If the Bulls do want to trade Rose, what could they expect to get for him?

 

Old teams that are trying to compete don't trade their best player.

 

Well, the rumors are there. Jimmy and Rose are not far apart when I look at what they bring defensively and offensively. Rose's contract, Bulls brass tired of his act, Rose's loss of explosion to the rim, lack of willingness to work with Jimmy, and injury history are plenty of reasons that a trade is a good possibility.,

 

No, it's really not; any talk of the Bulls moving on from Rose are with the idea they simply don't re-sign him after his contract is up. What team is going to give up real value for an oft-injured player who is ridiculously expensive and who they could simply just try and sign as a FA after next season? This ain't baseball. IF the Bulls trade him it's for peanuts in the hope they can free up money for next season, but they're looking to be competitive now regardless of what happens between them and Rose after his contract is up, and getting rid of Rose basically kills them for this season.

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If the Bulls do want to trade Rose, what could they expect to get for him?

 

Old teams that are trying to compete don't trade their best player.

 

Well, the rumors are there. Jimmy and Rose are not far apart when I look at what they bring defensively and offensively. Rose's contract, Bulls brass tired of his act, Rose's loss of explosion to the rim, lack of willingness to work with Jimmy, and injury history are plenty of reasons that a trade is a good possibility.,

 

No, it's really not; any talk of the Bulls moving on from Rose are with the idea they simply don't re-sign him after his contract is up. What team is going to give up real value for an oft-injured player who is ridiculously expensive and who they could simply just try and sign as a FA after next season? This ain't baseball. IF the Bulls trade him it's for peanuts in the hope they can free up money for next season, but they're looking to be competitive now regardless of what happens between them and Rose after his contract is up, and getting rid of Rose basically kills them for this season.

 

Put out some bait and see if a team like the Lakers or Jordan bites and wants to be stupid

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It's amazing that Jimmy is discussed as maybe better than Rose and he deserves credit for his amazing improvement.

 

But he's a 26 or 27 year old with 1 good offensive season in his entire basketball career. At this point I have to say that it's more likely to me that this Bulls team can be a winner if rose plays like a elite player than butler recreating or building on last year.

 

Jimmy is off to a nice start but even this 6 games (when Jimmy has played to great efficiency stats) you can see rose can break down a defense and create easy scoring in a way Jimmy does not have the talent to replicate.

 

I don't believe rose doesn't want to play well with Jimmy. I think his game is suited to work best with pau or a shooter than an attacking wing who is not quite a great off ball player.

 

Watching rose this past game makes me hopeful. Whenever he had a mismatch he immediately created space for his midrange jumper. He also penetrated and fed other mismatches.

 

If they tried to get rid of him now because they want to move away from him later, than that's a shame because this team has the talent to compete and our best shot is an elite performance from rose and whatever pau can bring late in the season.

 

Doesn't it make more sense to try to keep rose for another contract based on the movement in the cap for the next 2 CBAs than move him or not resign?

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I've never heard of a game starting at 5 PM local time. turned in expecting to see the end of the first quarter and instead I saw the last play of regulation.
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I feel like they are playing a strike-shortened schedule right now. I know they're not, but it feels like they're playing every night
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I feel like they are playing a strike-shortened schedule right now. I know they're not, but it feels like they're playing every night

 

 

??? They haven't played a back to back since the first 2 games of the season.

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I feel like they are playing a strike-shortened schedule right now. I know they're not, but it feels like they're playing every night

 

 

??? They haven't played a back to back since the first 2 games of the season.

 

I know, I just said it "feels" that way.

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He grew up in Texas with a white family during very formative years of his youth. Of course he likes country music.
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This is from 2012

 

He hails from Tomball, Texas, a small town of about 11,000 people that's 34 miles north of Houston. Given that proximity, one might think Butler would have big-city tendencies.

 

But it turns out Butler calls dinner "supper" and has an affinity for country music and cowboy boots. In fact, his boot collection is similar to most basketball players' sneaker stashes.

 

"I feel like it's my own thing," Butler said. "It's not my way of being different; I just want my own style. Not too many people do it. I'm from Tomball, a small town—it's country. But that's where I'm from and I like wearing cowboy boots. My teammates get a kick out of it, but it's just like wearing Adidas, like wearing Jordans or wearing Nikes."

 

His teammates certainly enjoy teasing him about it.

 

"You know, I guess that's that Texas swag," said Joakim Noah, a New York native. "I mean, I've never met a black man that wore cowboy boots like that before."

 

Taj Gibson, another native New Yorker, was even less diplomatic.

 

"It's terrible, just terrible," Gibson said. "But that's his swag so I'm gonna roll with him. But it's not me at all."

 

Butler didn't wear cowboy boots as a kid; it wasn't until he got to college that his inner cowboy was set free.

 

"When I was at Marquette, everyone kept calling me 'country' and saying I had cows in my backyard and stuff like that," said Butler, who's averaging 4.5 points in 14 minutes per game this season. "So I was like, OK, you wanna call me a cowboy? I'll show y'all a cowboy.

 

"So I started wearing Wranglers, cowboy boots, hats, the belt buckles, all of that good stuff. And now that I'm here in Chicago, my teammates know that I love country music. They know that I own a guitar. So I figured why not play into the stereotype?"

 

While many of Butler's teammates aren't familiar with the concept of the black cowboy, Carlos Boozer is not one of them. After years playing for the Utah Jazz, he became acquainted with another NBA player who was about the cowboy life.

 

"I'm used to seeing Karl Malone with the country gear on in Utah," Boozer said. "So I told Jimmy that The Mailman does it too, but he goes all out. He has the belt buckle, the ten-gallon hat, all that. Jimmy doesn't rock it like that."

 

Nate Robinson, Butler's closest friend on the team, is open to wearing cowboy gear, but with conditions.

 

"I told him I'll wear the cowboy stuff one day, but he's got to wear Jordans and stuff that I like. And I told him, if I wear the cowboy gear, I'm going hard. I need the boots, the big belt buckle, the button-up shirt tucked in, the hat, the straw. See, he doesn't do that; he does it half-ass. He's a half-ass cowboy. I'm going all the way with it."

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