Chicago Bulls fans awoke on Independence Day to learn that the Bulls had helped their long-coveted, draft-and-stash European sensation, Nikola Mirotic, purchase his own independence from Real Madrid. Does that signal the Bulls' worst-case scenario has come to fruition and Carmelo Anthony has set his heart elsewhere?
Joakim Noah has doubts that Anthony will sign with the Bulls, as reported by K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune.
Two days removed from the high of their well-received pitch to Anthony in Chicago, the Bulls continued to grasp the long odds regarding acquiring Anthony, who also met with Knicks President Phil Jackson and coach Derek Fisher later Thursday in Los Angeles.
A Yahoo Sports report stated Anthony also planned to reach out to Gasol to discuss him joining the Knicks, another in a growing set of signs that Anthony may re-up in New York. Joakim Noah, intimately involved in the Bulls' pitch to Anthony, has told several people he believes Anthony will re-sign with the Knicks.
That would correlate with the news that Mirotic is coming over.
HoopsHype first broke the story.
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Article written by Kelly Scaletta
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