Zach LaVine, Chicago Bulls
Wojnarowski reported Zach LaVine is the proud owner of a four-year, $78 million contract. The Sacramento Kings first made the offer, but the Chicago Bulls stepped in and matched it.
It is the one contract of the summer that is emphatically horrible.nike nfl jerseys for sale
The Kings tried to Kangz, but the Bulls front office said, “Hold my Chicago-brewed beer.”
Nick Friedell of ESPN.com pointed to the possible motivation, tweeting: “The Butler deal is a sunk cost. It’s over. Matching the LaVine offer sheet just because you don’t want to lose an asset from a past trade isn’t good business if the price is too high.”nfl cheap jerseys china
Friedell was referring to the fact LaVine was one of the three assets the Bulls got in return for four-time All-Star Jimmy Butler and Justin Patton last summer—a trade for which John Paxson and Gar Forman were criticized. Ironically, the other two parts of that trade, cheap official nfl jerseys Kris Dunn and Lauri Markkanen, have acquitted themselves well and made the swap look better.
Now, though, almost as if to prove they were right, the Bulls gave LaVine almost $20 million per year. Even if LaVine evolves into the playmaker and scorer they hope he can be (he averaged 18.9 points per game on 57.6 percent true shooting in 2016-17 before he tore his ACL), he still has major issues on the other end. His DRPM ranked 490th.
That isn’t just a statistic, either. The eye test backs it up. His inability to stay in front of ball-handlers is rivaled only by his failure to pay attention when he’s not the point of attack. Remember, these are problems even Tom Thibodeau couldn’t fix while LaVine was with the Minnesota Timberwolves.cheap nfl jerseys cheap shipping
LaVine can make incredible plays on offense, but it’s doubtful he’ll live up to this contract.
