The New-Look Bulls

 

Published 2/26/2008 by Charlie Danoff at Bleacher Report - NBA

Republished , with permission, from the Chicago Sports Review Thursday's deadline three-way trade by John Paxson may well go down one day as the move that saved his legacy as GM of the Chicago Bulls. Doing the impossible and trading what is easily one of the NBA's worst current contracts allows Paxson to finally move on from the most egregious error of his tenure. As many have said, losing Wallace is addition by subtraction, and so long as the Bulls didn't get Vin Baker back in a trade for him they would instantly become a better team as soon as he left. What they did actually yield in the deal that also saw Joe Smith and Adrian Griffin leave town was considerably better than Vin Baker: Shannon Brown, Cedric Simmons, Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden. Somehow, Paxson managed to find somebody stupid enough to give him more talented, younger and cheaper players in exchange for Wallace. Thank god the Matt Millen of the NBA, Danny Ferry, does his trading based solely on the whims of LeBron James.  ... [link]

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