Bulls finished the summer league stronger than they started, winning their last three after losing their first two games. Good news is that Johnson started playing a lot better. Bad news is that Gibson sat out the last three games with an injury.
As expected, Deng bailed on the UK Olympic hoops squad because of his perpetual injury. It cracks me up to see him billed in the British papers as "NBA superstar Luol Deng"!! I wonder what the real NBA superstars think when they see that in the papers. They probably think about how many points they are going to score on Deng the next time they play against him. Gordon also opted out, so he can concentrate on scoring as many points as possible against the Bulls next year.
Portland is lucky enough to sign Andre Miller and then their idiotic coach comes out and says that Steve Blake is the starter going into camp! Unless Miller is really feeling his age all of a sudden, he's far better than Blake. Why insult your potential floor leader before he even plays a game for you?
Boozer has pretty much burned his Utah bridges. He clearly wants to play for Miami, but he'd be happy enough to play for the Bulls or just about anyone else. Utah is a stubborn team though that doesn't like to deal away players for less than they are worth. I wish the Bulls could emulate that attitude a bit more, but in this case Utah is going to have to take the best deal available to them and it isn't going to be very advantageous.
Tim Thomas gets picked up by the Mavs, but they don't give him much, not even using an exception on him. He isn't worth it, but may be worth a roster spot.
Aside from the Boozer rumors, there are David Lee trade rumors afloat. I'll take just about anyone if it gets Tyrus out of town.
And the president, in congratulating Bill Lambeer for coaching the winning WNBA team, announced that it was difficult for him to do this as a Chicago Bulls fan, because of the fierce rivalry between Lambeer's Pistons and the Bulls. Can't the president issue some kind of executive order that gifts Deng to England permanently? Or maybe he can use his Emergency Powers privilege to declare the Bulls to be in a state of disaster? FEMA could cart Tyrus away. He could declare war on LA, Boston and Cleveland. Got to be some way he could help the Bulls.
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