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there was even more from Vuc, I didn't see it until now because I think Cowley was the only one who published it:

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"for me I can understand [fan negativity] because people expect what I was doing in Orlando. But I don’t have that same role, I’m not utilized the same way, don’t have the same amount of touches or the touches where I was getting previously.

“Out of the three of us (Vucevic, DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine) I’m the one that has sacrificed the most from an individual game. That’s why I feel like the people that have been critical of me really don’t understand how basketball works, what it takes for us to function as a group."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bulls/2023/10/3/23901997/bulls-nikola-vucevic-unwilling-participant-blame-game

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It's clear he wishes it was Orlando Vuc, where the team was a bottom-10 offense featuring him in the post but he got an All-Star selection

And it just goes against what AK and Donovan said earlier in the day in the style of play they want. If anything it's asking Vuc to do even less, and he's saying he talked to them about doing more. Maybe he quickly got over it when seeing the salary offer.

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I think there's a decent chance any one of us could become the Bulls VP when AK's tenure ends in 2040 or whatever. Here's how:

Resume - doesn't matter, you don't need to have accomplished anything. Just say you were once in a room with a guy who knew a guy who went to high school with the dude who, I dunno, scouted Wemby for the Spurs.

The interview - say you don't wanna rock the boat. Keep operating costs low. You have good communication skills and still keep a land line phone. Basketball vision includes trimming the fat off the scouting department, finding a cheaper medical provider, and of course keeping team salary down.

Salary negotiation - say you'll do the job for $250-300K.

This should be the playbook for having a decades-long tenure in a Reinsdorf front office.

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