than everyone believes for Paxson to move Hughes. He might have to just wait until the contract expires.

I don’t think this is a problem.

We won’t win 49 games.

I thought incentives were determined before the season whether they were attainable for cap purposes.

Making $58M last year in a godawful year, will attest if they won 49 games and made the playoffs, this would be a nice boost to their revenue line, making Hughes $4M cost not too much a concern for them. Plus having Rose in the playoff hunt in a more favorable matchup with 49 wins should suggest, really will be a boost to not only ticket sales, but Rose Jersey sales and Bulls sales in general.

So i think this is roughly a mute point. A good thought, but for the Bulls corp brass, I think they’d love any chance at best to not only make the playoffs but progress to the 2nd round…..imagine the hype they’d get with a huge expiring contract (Hughes next year) a young stud who improved the team by 16 wins back to where it was 2 years ago) and hopefully by then a nice core with Rose and Deng and hopefully Gordon to build off of.

Also, I don’t think with our backcourt issues and Deng’s play, 49 wins is a possibility, but it is early and our young bigs have talent, they just don’t know how to use it yet…

1. TT and Noah become good.
2. Hinrich either returns to ’06 form or is traded for a good player
3. Nocioni is traded
4. Aaron Gray sees less than 10 mpg.
5. The DOW hits 10,000 again.

We cannot discount Hughes’ offensive contribution to the team this season. With Deng yet to show up this season, Hughes’ input has been all the more helpful and necessary.

Hughes has had more of a positive impact this season than Hinrich or Deng. And in light of that, give Hughes some credit.

First, I believe the owner, GM, coaches and players care more about “on the court performance” that someone on blog some bullshit, I apologize moderator, but some post are just too far off the mark.
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"Hughes arguably had his best playoff performance since scoring 33 points in Game 5 of the Wizards’ first-round series against the Chicago Bulls in 2005. It was the type of show the Cavaliers — and perhaps that angry fan — expected from Hughes when he bolted Washington that summer to sign a five-year, $60 million contract with the team. (The contract could be worth up to $70 million with easily attainable incentives; Hughes got a $2 million bonus this season because Cleveland won at least 49 games.)
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It was the type of show (no it was played on the court not a show) with the Cavaliers?
 He was not playing even for them at the time in 2005, why in the H would they care then (the fan, please, go get your pepsi and third hot dog). He played in 36 games that year with 15.5 points and 4.5 rebounds and 3.6 assist (pretty much the same performance you get now?)

Now, maybe look before our Bulls get involved, remember, you have someone you have Wallace that you fail to mention? Contract dollars? Performance? The Trade? His 3 pt per game average this year (a superstar?).

All critical before you worry about a small incentive by someone, it is not that player, that gives the incentive. Hughes wanted to stay at Washington, they wanted him, still want him, but THE KING said, “get me Hughes”, hence the large contract. So don’t hate the player, don’t even hate Cleveland, for they usually to what the KING wants. He fills their seats. Last year before we got Hughes, he said, “GET ME JASON KIDD”, management did not listen this time or bow to the king. Now he is getting ready for the big Apple or Europe at 50 million a year.

Lets look at 2006-2007 (this is last year, a tad more recent than the 2005 mentioned), this was be the second of the five year contract, right. You still with me? Not a contract year? Correct? Played in 70 games, 68 starts and averaged a career high, remember, this is the ninth year in his career, average NBA career length?
Take a guess? 4.7 years So even you (and I) should know what your getting, RIGHT? 14.9 points per game, 3.8 assist and only one of seventeen player in the league last year (remember, this is 2007, not 2005) to finish with 1000 points, 250 rebounds, 250 assist and 85 steals. In the NBA, yes, the whole league (300 players). You don’t take that away from someone, he did it, case closed. In addition, he rated number 26 in steals per game. You think Thabo, Gordon are going to ever give you that? Heinrich? Anyone on the Bulls going to do that? Rose? Think he will make it 11 years in the NBA? How many players make it 10 years? Answer please? Not even 10 percent of every player on a team in 2008. 50% have less than three years expereince, you think someone with some knowledge, or played the game would respect someone who could do it for 5-7-9-11 years. I could never do it above my college level. Its truly like winning the lotto to have that skill. You don’t understand numbers, surely not defense and here is where the money came, Hughes is a great defender beyond even his good defensive numbers. A game, if studied and he play mid 30 minutes, he will take 6-8 points off the other teams score. I can’t show you or teach you how to know that, but less then the NBA level it’s known and rewarded, hence, why he make nearly a couple hundred grand a night. Now smoke those numbers in your pipe, because believe me, someone else did thirty times before it was offered. Then say, who can play the point at that height, play #2 and play small forward? Now you see value.
Now, what did he average is whole career and college career in FG and 3pts?
Once you start learning this about players, you start learning the game.

 The same as he always has (Hughes) about 41% from the field, about 31% from the 3 pt mark. He finished the 2007 season (three more years on his contract remember) with going near the last ten games scoring over 16 ppg. Lead or tied the team in steals 21 times and went a month hitting 21-48 from the 3 pt line. In the year ending 2007, scored in double figures 55 times and topped the 20 pt mark 15 times.

Not to keep this brief, and it is honest as can be, and not lopsided like I am a Hughes junkie, he gives what he us what he always given any other team. Same average, same numbers, when played the minutes. At 30 next year, I want to know who on the bulls is better? Yes, Rose had the numbers, but for less than 2 months in the NBA, this is 10 years and 2 months in the NBA. Got one player? Nope, we got Sanford and Son heap of trouble with the wort junk in the paint. Now, he is leading our whole team yet does not start. HMMM, I would play for what somebody does on the court would not you? Look at the minutes, learn, most of all, with a player like Hughes that 95% of fans can not understand, it is the defense, not the missed 35 footer clanger (many times at Cleveland, where that started cause Lebron would finally pass then with 4 seconds left on the shot clock some games, Hughes would pop 30-40, many he would not.
I am no a friend of Hughes, agent, promoter, relative, etc, I don’t even know Larry Hughes, nor would he know me if I was in the first row of the United Center.
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