If all the Chicago Bulls can get for Luol Deng is the No. 7 overall selection they need to hang on to the well-rounded small forward.
According to Marcus Thompson of the Contra Costa Times, Chicago would like to ship out Deng to get into the draft lottery.
Their desire to ship out Deng makes excellent sense for one very big reason. The Bulls will be, in a sense, in a rebuilding year next season.
That statement seems ridiculous to utter for the team that entered these past playoffs as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, but it is true because of what happened in those playoffs. Star point guard Derrick Rose tore his ACL.
As ESPN's Nick Friedell pointed out, Rose's surgeon, Dr. Brian Cole, said after the surgery that the expected timetable for return is eight months to a year. In the same article, Cole is noted as saying Rose is ahead of schedule, but I still contend it would be foolish to expect Rose to be back near 100 percent at any time next season.
Getting on the court is one thing, but playing at an MVP level is another, and without Rose at his dominating best, the Bulls can forget about ...
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