dailyherald.com - 8/2/2008
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Ben Gordon hasn't given up on staying with the Bulls, but he does see the writing on the wall. The Bulls don't want to pay the luxury tax, and unless that policy changes, they have a finite amount of money to offer Gordon to start a new contract. Add it up over six years, and the restricted free agent would have to accept a smaller average salary (about $9.8 million) than the team offered him ...
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Ben Gordon Sees the Writing On the Wall
Dabullz —
The Daily Herald was able to get in an interview with Ben Gordon to print an article for the paper. According to this article, Ben Gordon sees the writing on the wall and has concrete offers from European teams that he can fall back on as a last resort.
Here is a snippet of the article:
Ben Gordon hasn’t given up on staying with the Bulls, but he does see the writing on the wall.
The Bulls don’t want to pay the luxury tax, and unless that policy changes, they have a finite amount of money to offer Gordon to start a new ...
It looks that way. I don't think they want to lose their leading scorer for nothing. Maybe they d...
Blog a Bull —
... Ben Gordon, on the Bulls limiting their offer to what's left under the luxury tax, and sticking to the scoring = $$$ talking points. ...
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MVN Outsider —
... 3. Ben Gordon - Every day seems like a new outlook for Bulls leading scorer Ben Gordon. It turned out that Luol Deng received the contract that is in the ball park for what Gordon is seeking. There’s been talk about sign-and-trade options, including one involving Josh Smith, but the Bulls only have a little under $10 million in cap space to offer. That’s less than what they offered Gordon last summer. ...
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