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Do the Chicago Bulls Know What They Are Doing? Because I Sure Don't

 
This article is also posted at Hoops4Life.com , a basketball fan's site.  I posted it here because I figured you would all enjoy this stuff. The Chicago Bulls are my team.  I have to admit that this is an article of me being very unsettled with what this team has been doing this off-season. First, they are horrible at getting players signed in a timely manner.  They should have locked up Luol Deng and Ben Gordon at the beginning of last season or even before that. Instead, they ended up having to wait until the off-season, and even then, they couldn't get a deal done in a timely manner. They didn't sign Luol Deng until just a few days ago and he is now scheduled for about $11.8 million a year.  Sure, he deserves the money he got, but they couldn't have gotten this done quicker? The 76ers were faster getting a player to leave the team he wanted to stay with, in fact, every team that had wanted a big name got their deals done faster. The Bulls just waited and ... (link)

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