Bulls in the news (and for good stuff!)

by wjb1492 on Jul 24, 2007 9:59 PM CDT

[ From the Diaries. I won't lie, I really wanted something to push down that blogiversary post. But I admit these UK articles are indeed interesting. Maybe not as controversial as the news from Argentina. -Matt]

I didn't see these articles listed under the newsfeed, so thought I'd post the links in case anyone else almost missed them.

Lu - he really is a rather extraordinary chap, and the UK papers always have such interesting speculation on contract amounts

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/us_sport/basketball/article2134404.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.html?in_article_id=470644&in_pa ge_id=1781

Noah - not much new here, but it is something

http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/noah_interview_070724.html

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cool...

...I wonder if ben gordon is doing anything this summer???..

by get clutch on Jul 24, 2007 10:35 PM CDT reply actions

Looks like he's up to something good, too.

http://westchester.com/Westchester_News/Sports/Ben_Gordon_To_Host_3rd_Community_Unity_Weekend_200707 258109.html

"They had me do a psychology test and I asked Coach Skiles if that affected his coaching. He laughed and said, `No way.'" (Joakim Noah)

by wjb1492 on Jul 25, 2007 10:10 AM CDT up reply actions

Gordon is throwing

out the first pitch at the Cell tonight too.

by hscs on Jul 25, 2007 10:40 AM CDT up reply actions

Can you hear the crickets?

by joejoeEnglish94bulls4ever on Jul 24, 2007 10:56 PM CDT reply actions

Noah in a Bulls jersey is

ummmmm whats the word?

by joejoeEnglish94bulls4ever on Jul 24, 2007 11:01 PM CDT reply actions

lol

lebron jones

by smegmatic on Jul 24, 2007 11:14 PM CDT reply actions

Love it

Global icon, indeed.

Propers to 1958ChiTown, aka "Na Naaa Na Na," father of the Three Winged Swan.

by preverbal on Jul 25, 2007 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions

woah

80 mill for 5 years??? These people are nuts.

by Sambossanova on Jul 25, 2007 2:23 AM CDT reply actions

Is he even eligible

for a raise that would make him 16 million a year under the CBA?

by KT on Jul 25, 2007 6:11 AM CDT up reply actions

The second paper

said 6 years, 36 million pounds. I don't know the exact conversion, but I think it's about 2:1. That means the contract is about $72 million over 6 years or 12 per. Much more reasonable, but still a bit on the high side.

by Repeat Threepeat on Jul 25, 2007 6:29 AM CDT up reply actions

If it's 6x72,

then Pax won't be able to sign him now and will have to wait until next off season.

He can only be under contract for no more than six years at a time, so right now he can get a five year max extension since he has one year left under his current deal.

Just like Matt says, teh Internets are serious business!!!1!1!

by Colossus @ Blog a Bull on Jul 25, 2007 8:00 AM CDT up reply actions

Thanks PaxJax.

Yes, of course.

by tyger1147 on Jul 25, 2007 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions

thanks for volunteering helpful information

you big jerk.

by hscs on Jul 25, 2007 9:22 AM CDT up reply actions

It's not that helpful.

The article says the Bulls offered a 6x72 contract. Which is wrong. But then Colussus talks about, "Well, they'd be offering that next year." Huh? Who's talking about next year?

He'd be more helpful to explain why the British paper messed up in saying it was a six-year contract.

Are you ever right?

Yes, of course.

by tyger1147 on Jul 25, 2007 10:12 AM CDT up reply actions

that is what Colossus said

the paper messed up by saying it was a six-year contract since the Bulls can't offer him a six-year contract this offseason, only a 5-year contract.

maybe you skimmed.

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Jul 25, 2007 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions

that's reason enough

to do these extensions now. get that first year on the cheap.

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Jul 25, 2007 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions

But also reason enough

for some guys to wait it out an extra year and get even more money with the sixth year. Hinrich almost did it but decided to go with five years at the last moment.

All comes down to security vs. risk.

Just like Matt says, teh Internets are serious business!!!1!1!

by Colossus @ Blog a Bull on Jul 25, 2007 9:23 PM CDT up reply actions

If it is 36 million pounds

then it will be closer to about 65 million dollars I think.

by goldengod on Jul 25, 2007 9:32 PM CDT up reply actions

That first article is horrible.

Yes, of course.

by tyger1147 on Jul 25, 2007 8:37 AM CDT reply actions

take it up with the queen

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Jul 25, 2007 9:28 AM CDT up reply actions

She knows my displeasure.

Yes, of course.

by tyger1147 on Jul 25, 2007 10:13 AM CDT up reply actions

British press fascination with Beckham

How does that guy make it into two articles about Deng and British basketball? It's as if they have a Beckham quota that they must fill in every article.

by nateroth on Jul 25, 2007 9:32 AM CDT reply actions

Jay Mariotti has the same with Jordan.

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Jul 25, 2007 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions

If Jordan bombs in Charlotte

Jay will never, ever be able to say Uncle Jerry should have hired him to be Bulls GM again. Is that a good reason to hope he fails?

Of course, he's not spending much time in Charlotte.

by KT on Jul 25, 2007 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions

Great Britain Vs Slovakia Aug 21...

... I've already got my tickets. Can't wait to see Luol live for the first time!!

Luuoollll!!!

Vangelis
(The No 1 Bulls fan in Europe??)

by Vangelis on Jul 25, 2007 11:16 AM CDT reply actions

More news...Suns waiting on PJ, Sweets?

With an open roster spot and a need to replace the departed Kurt Thomas with another big man, the Suns are willing to let a sparse free agent crop at the position dwindle, waiting to see whether veteran P.J. Brown decides to play and if he is interested in Phoenix.

Melvin Ely, Trevor Ruffin, Brian Skinner, Michael Sweetney and even Chris Webber -- like Brown, a player leaning toward retirement and who would require more than the veteran minimum salary to attract -- are also possibilities.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/93813

by ScottieCartwright on Jul 25, 2007 11:38 AM CDT reply actions

I can see Sweets fitting in with the Suns

not the Suns model of run-and-gun, but the Suns model of playing 6 guys all game and having the bench be useless.

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Jul 25, 2007 1:03 PM CDT up reply actions

lol

I was worried for a minute when I saw that subject line ;)

"They had me do a psychology test and I asked Coach Skiles if that affected his coaching. He laughed and said, `No way.'" (Joakim Noah)

by wjb1492 on Jul 25, 2007 2:00 PM CDT up reply actions

good mood in the articles

but the great image of the deng board is totally wrong...thats in portland, and it's a rebound, not a dunk

but kudos to the press...if we can accept football, they should be able accept the truly beautful game

by milesgmsu on Jul 25, 2007 11:39 AM CDT reply actions

LMAO.

I love the hyperbole of the British articles. They make Deng sound like the second coming.

And how can anyone fail to appreciate this gem:

"For many of us, the best basketball shot we ever saw was the last-ditch, longrange three-pointer that saved Snake Pliskin's life in John Carpenter's Escape from LA."

by 1958ChiTown on Jul 25, 2007 12:11 PM CDT reply actions

Have you tried reading the auto-translation

of the article on Noc? That was a total hoot. E.g.,

Scola, that was broken contact with the Spanish Ceramic Tau to add itself to the equipment of the Rockets, has assured that Argentina "will go to Fertile valleys with a competitive formation" and that their possibilities of classification "are intact".

"I understand and respect all the positions" of the players who have resigned To play in Fertile valleys, but "he does not have sense to continue speaking of that", added.

Of course, I'm hoping that the article is as wrong about Noc trying to play for Argnetina as the British articles are about potential contracts.

"They had me do a psychology test and I asked Coach Skiles if that affected his coaching. He laughed and said, `No way.'" (Joakim Noah)

by wjb1492 on Jul 25, 2007 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions

Spencer Hawes and I have been lobbying for a

literal translation of Las Vegas to be used for years.

by hscs on Jul 25, 2007 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions

I was confused

by that article on Andres. I read right after he signed his contract that he wasn't going to play this summer. I certainly hope he is not planning on playing.

by sue369 on Jul 25, 2007 5:46 PM CDT up reply actions

He said

he wasn't going to play at his news conference in town. He said his legs weren't strong enough from his losing weight to help with his foot recovery.

He mentioned he had to put the weight back on before the season started.

by KT on Jul 25, 2007 6:33 PM CDT up reply actions

Flopu

also shot down the Grizz pitch rumors, which was strange. Nocioni's Spanish-speaking agent keeps getting quoted in all these reports, and it seems like a lot of unnecessary appeasement (to Bulls and national team fans) to me.

by hscs on Jul 25, 2007 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions

OK, I knew

I read it or heard it. Thanks.

by sue369 on Jul 25, 2007 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Thaanks for

the articles. Liked the Noah interview.

by sue369 on Jul 25, 2007 1:55 PM CDT reply actions

Thanks :)

by sue369 on Jul 25, 2007 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm excited to see how he fits in

He's definitely growing on me, and I was pretty pro-Noah to start with.

"They had me do a psychology test and I asked Coach Skiles if that affected his coaching. He laughed and said, `No way.'" (Joakim Noah)

by wjb1492 on Jul 25, 2007 2:19 PM CDT up reply actions

He's grown

on me too.

by sue369 on Jul 25, 2007 5:47 PM CDT up reply actions

Noah

I'm interested to see what Noah can provide this team. It would have been nice to see him in Summer League to get a better feel for what he can do. In Pax I trust though, he hasn't made any poor choices in the draft yet, which is quite an improvement over some of the picks Krause made that did not pan out (Fizer, Corey Benjamin, etc.)

by stevekerrsfloppyhair on Jul 26, 2007 9:46 PM CDT reply actions