It’s not easy letting a favorite player go, but that’s what’s being asked of Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau. On Monday evening, the Bulls traded Luol Deng to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Andrew Bynum and future draft picks. Bynum was waived the next day.
According to ESPN Chicago, Bulls vice president John Paxson doesn't expect Thibodeau to be happy about the situation. Paxson does, however, expect his coach to be a professional about it:
Look, it's not realistic to ask Tom or his staff to be happy about taking a player of Lu's caliber off your team. But what has to happen within an organization is that when decisions are made, that as a group you have to align together, and you have to move forward.
Thibs described his meeting with the front office as diplomatically as can be expected:
I had a chance to voice my opinion. Their job is to make financial decisions, to make player personnel decisions, and things of that nature. Their job is to do that. My job is to coach the guys that are here. That's the way it works.
Moving forward—that&rsq ...
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Tom Thibodeau Unhappy with Luol Deng Trade
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