Yeah, now that I think about it, you are probably right. This limits the Bulls being players in 2014 when Deng's contract comes off the books. No it doesn't. That's a reasonable contract, so odds are they could trade him if they needed/wanted to.
I guess eating a really expensive Kobe Beef burger that's gone bad is technically better than eating the the chewed up Whopper you found in the trashcan.
That's probably the most baffling anti-sabermetric idea, that "stat geeks" seemingly want to find ways to follow/predict baseball without ever watching baseball.