Kevin Durant will sign with the Warriors...

[toys2cool]

Dwayne Wade to Chicago.

The NBA is ridiculous.

Another "This was tough but I feel I've made the right choice".

These guys get fed their lines by some great spin doctors.

The hell with him

[toys2cool]

Wade, took eight million dollars more...and bailed to Chicago.

Yeah, that's more honorable than what Durant did (he took less $ to go to the Warriors), sure...lol.

Durant wants to win, who can blame him. Wade wants to provide Gabrielle Union with more diamonds...

yea it's all BS, Florida is a no tax state in the NBA and $47 mil to the $40 Miami offered would've been about the same. Plus if it had been about the cash, Denver had offered $50...He just did it to stick to Pat. He knows he can't win in Chicago, and spare me the going back home BS, if he cared about that he would've done it 6 years ago when the Bulls were very good

[toys2cool]

And, yes, this is s good thread. Heated debate, but not disrespectful.....................so far.

it's always fun talking sports

[toys2cool]

You gotta give it to the Warriors, they pulled off an amazing move by getting Durant..Yes some people call BS on it but if it was your team you'd be ecstatic...It's just one of those teams.. But keep in mind nothing in the NBA is guaranteed, Look Cleveland did the unthinkable and beat one of the greatest teams of all time. anything can happen, what's to say Durant and LeBron don't get injured next year and 2 other teams swoop in there that no one expected ?

[hedrap]

Wade is from Chicago. He's said since the Shaq days he would finish his career there. Also, the original LeBron-Wade deal was for both to go Chicago, (Derek Rose killed that talk). Riley did try and make a final run when he picked up Deng and Johnson. If Bosh wasn't finished, they would've beat Toronto and been in the East Finals. That was the best single-Wade exhibition since Shaq left.

Wade is not looking for 30+ minutes every night. He needs a deep back court to split time with cause the dude is seriously injury-prone. To me, it looks as if he wanted to go CLE but when they broke down what needed to be done - trade Shump, release JR - it became self-defeating. Wade would have been clocking huge minutes cause the Cavs need to have the best league record at all costs for home court.

It also appears a byline for Wade's signing was CLE gets Dunleavy. Competitive inter-conference teams never make moves like that, but LeBron apparently wanted Dunleavy since the Miami days, (and got Mike Miller instead). His salary makes it possible to keep JR and Shump, too. Cavs still need another 4/5 player.

[Goblin19]

I do wish Wade would have stayed. I miss the days where players stayed their whole career with one team, especially in baseball.

[Donkey Hoatie]

I do wish Wade would have stayed. I miss the days where players stayed their whole career with one team, especially in baseball.

As a die-hard Bulls fan, I wish the same. Between the Wade and Rondo signings, the Bulls will be completely unwatchable next year as far as I'm concerned. I can't think of too many players in the league that I like less than those two, and now they're on my favorite team. Awesome. I'm not sure what I've done in a previous life to have this happen right now, but it must have been mighty awful.

[toys2cool]

I just feel bad for the Bulls fans who think they're getting the D-wade from 6 years ago.. This guy's body is beat to crap..I do appreciate everything he did for us including bringing LeBron here...but it came down to Keeping Whiteside and trying to Recruit Durant or Keeping Wade and trying to recruit Durant. I'm sorry it's a tough call but you gotta go with Whiteside and I think it was the right call..2 years 40 mil was more then a fair offer.. let's see how many actual games he plays this year. I'm not hater I love Wade, but that was a ***** move

[Hector]

Whiteside is a stud...Heat had to take care of him first. I know the Heat wanted Durant too...Wade took both moves as an insult. I can't fully blame Wade, but like Damien said...he's past his prime now...he was just not worth what he was asking.

[Hector]

As a die-hard Bulls fan, I wish the same. Between the Wade and Rondo signings, the Bulls will be completely unwatchable next year as far as I'm concerned. I can't think of too many players in the league that I like less than those two, and now they're on my favorite team. Awesome. I'm not sure what I've done in a previous life to have this happen right now, but it must have been mighty awful.

I sympathize with you...but that was funny, man...

[Donkey Hoatie]

I just feel bad for the Bulls fans who think they're getting the D-wade from 6 years ago.. This guy's body is beat to crap..I do appreciate everything he did for us including bringing LeBron here...but it came down to Keeping Whiteside and trying to Recruit Durant or Keeping Wade and trying to recruit Durant. I'm sorry it's a tough call but you gotta go with Whiteside and I think it was the right call..2 years 40 mil was more then a fair offer.. let's see how many actual games he plays this year. I'm not hater I love Wade, but that was a ***** move

In gauging the temperature of a number of local Bulls fans, I'm having a tough time finding anyone who even remotely thinks this is a good idea and that Wade has much, if anything, left in the tank. The only ones talking about this and making noise are the same bloated gasbags that always seem to pop up on ESPN.

We just had a Finals series that displayed some incredible shooting, with guys hitting shots from all over the court. It's obvious to everyone in the world that the way to a Championship is with superstars and guys who can drain from anywhere. Even better if your superstars are the ones hitting all those threes. So, the Bulls got rid of a dinosaur, defensive-minded coach and brought in a hotshot who seemed to have a grasp on how to spread the floor and balance an offense in today's NBA.

Well, it was a total failure. The team didn't mesh. The coach couldn't coach. And, when he tried, the superstars undermined his up-tempo, passing-based, spread offense in favor of isolation and contested shots with 3 seconds left on the shot clock. They kept the biggest underminer (Butler) and shipped off the other in Rose. They got rid of the true leader of the team in Noah. Then, they claimed they were going to get younger and more athletic while they "retooled." Now, they've given a coach who emphasizes the 3 point shot a point guard who can't shoot from 2-point range, let alone 3, a mid-30s broken-down shooting guard who can't hit from 3 and really only likes an offense that allows him to hold the ball in his hands, and a SF who can't hit consistently from outside and can't lead his team out of a paper bag. Plus, they're pairing Rondo and Wade, the same two guys who hate each other based off of Wade dislocating Rondo's elbow a couple years ago on a dirty, cheap play.

Yeah, this is going to work.

Teams are going to pack the lane against the Bulls and dare them to hit anything at all from outside. Wade needs driving lanes to score, and they're not going to be there. Defenses are going to sag off of Rondo, knowing he can't score, and there's no consistent inside presence to take even the smallest bit of pressure off the backcourt. ESPN was blathering about how the Bulls are looking at being a 5-6 seed next year and possibly making the second round of the playoffs. In what world does that happen? How does Wade not miss at least half the season as teams just whale on him whenever he goes into the clogged lane? How does Rondo not have a complete and utter meltdown, just like in every other season he's had for a half-decade or so? How does everyone else not tune out Butler as he talks and talks and talks and then undermines his coach? This team has a 34-48 record tattooed all over it.

For me, the best case scenario is that Wade and Rondo square off against each other in the first practice of the season and then hit each other repeatedly in the groin until they're both placed on the Injured List for all 82 games.

The only plusses that came out of the whole thing is that they didn't have to get rid of any young talent (and it's debatable if there's any on the roster to begin with) to sign Wade and that maybe (big maybe), future free agents see that Wade wanted to sign here when there was more money on the table elsewhere (Denver) and finally consider Chicago a destination. Considering that our biggest FA pull over the past decade has been a washed-up Pau Gasol, that might be something.

I'm just going to go throw up for a couple hours now and start posting videos of all of Wade and Rondo's dirtiest plays for any fool who thinks this has potential to be good.

[Hector]

Excellent post! ^^^^^^

[Hector]

In my humble opinion, the Warriors should cruise into the Finals. The only way I don't see that happening...is if Curry's Doritos ankles don't hold up...and Durant's pretzel foot don't break...

[jwyblejr]

In gauging the temperature of a number of local Bulls fans, I'm having a tough time finding anyone who even remotely thinks this is a good idea and that Wade has much, if anything, left in the tank. The only ones talking about this and making noise are the same bloated gasbags that always seem to pop up on ESPN.

We just had a Finals series that displayed some incredible shooting, with guys hitting shots from all over the court. It's obvious to everyone in the world that the way to a Championship is with superstars and guys who can drain from anywhere. Even better if your superstars are the ones hitting all those threes. So, the Bulls got rid of a dinosaur, defensive-minded coach and brought in a hotshot who seemed to have a grasp on how to spread the floor and balance an offense in today's NBA.

Well, it was a total failure. The team didn't mesh. The coach couldn't coach. And, when he tried, the superstars undermined his up-tempo, passing-based, spread offense in favor of isolation and contested shots with 3 seconds left on the shot clock. They kept the biggest underminer (Butler) and shipped off the other in Rose. They got rid of the true leader of the team in Noah. Then, they claimed they were going to get younger and more athletic while they "retooled." Now, they've given a coach who emphasizes the 3 point shot a point guard who can't shoot from 2-point range, let alone 3, a mid-30s broken-down shooting guard who can't hit from 3 and really only likes an offense that allows him to hold the ball in his hands, and a SF who can't hit consistently from outside and can't lead his team out of a paper bag. Plus, they're pairing Rondo and Wade, the same two guys who hate each other based off of Wade dislocating Rondo's elbow a couple years ago on a dirty, cheap play.

Yeah, this is going to work.

Teams are going to pack the lane against the Bulls and dare them to hit anything at all from outside. Wade needs driving lanes to score, and they're not going to be there. Defenses are going to sag off of Rondo, knowing he can't score, and there's no consistent inside presence to take even the smallest bit of pressure off the backcourt. ESPN was blathering about how the Bulls are looking at being a 5-6 seed next year and possibly making the second round of the playoffs. In what world does that happen? How does Wade not miss at least half the season as teams just whale on him whenever he goes into the clogged lane? How does Rondo not have a complete and utter meltdown, just like in every other season he's had for a half-decade or so? How does everyone else not tune out Butler as he talks and talks and talks and then undermines his coach? This team has a 34-48 record tattooed all over it.

For me, the best case scenario is that Wade and Rondo square off against each other in the first practice of the season and then hit each other repeatedly in the groin until they're both placed on the Injured List for all 82 games.

The only plusses that came out of the whole thing is that they didn't have to get rid of any young talent (and it's debatable if there's any on the roster to begin with) to sign Wade and that maybe (big maybe), future free agents see that Wade wanted to sign here when there was more money on the table elsewhere (Denver) and finally consider Chicago a destination. Considering that our biggest FA pull over the past decade has been a washed-up Pau Gasol, that might be something.

I'm just going to go throw up for a couple hours now and start posting videos of all of Wade and Rondo's dirtiest plays for any fool who thinks this has potential to be good.

Pretty much of what I'm hearing from SB Nation and Yahoo.

[jacoblb]

Can't stand Rondo. Sad that Chicago is set up to fail. I like Wade, he's an elite player, but he can't carry that team.