The pre-season kicks off in a little over a week....who is excited for the Billy Donovan Era? What are your expectations? Mine are at least a 7th seed in the Central Division.

I don't think we have the most embarrassing coach in the NBA anymore so I'm optimistic. We'll see.

I know it will prob be another bad year, but I am looking forward to seeing what this new regime can do with the young guys. Maybe there will be some reason for hope moving forward.

Hopefully Donovan will figure out who the stiffs are by the trade deadline and the new leadership will figure out a way of unloading them if all possible, or else relegating them to DNP-CD until they agree to be bought out.

Fun-bad typically beats bad-bad.

It will be a success if they get me to watch even a single game from start to finish

It will be a success if they get me to watch even a single game from start to finish

It’s been hopeless since Rose was injured. And it feels even more hopeless now. Unless you luck into a title only free agent destination cities are regular contenders.

The free agent destination stuff is overrated outside of the Lakers. The Clippers, Knicks & Nets aren’t counting rings. The Warriors weren’t a destination until they became a powerhouse through the draft. A good coach, GM and a bit of draft success makes you a contender. The Bulls haven’t had that combination since Rose was injured. It’s a personnel issue more than a city one.

The Bulls have had some pretty good groups of personnel the last 20 years that a top tier free agent would have taken over the top.

It’s a Krause, and maybe not wanting to live in IL thing.

Not wanting to live here is an issue. I mean LeBron and Wade could have joined the Bulls with Rose, Noah, Deng, etc. what’s a better basketball situation? That or Miami with Bosh?

There hasn’t been a major free agent to sign here that had an equal offer since?

The 2010 thing was already preordained to be in Miami. Several trustworthy sources have confirmed this. The deal was made between Wade and Lebron in the 2008 olympics if LeBron didn’t win a title in Cleveland. From every credible source (not Jason Goff), Chicago was literally never an option for those guys.

Zippy is right. I think there’s truth to the idea that Krause/MJ hurt Bulls FA status for a bit but that’s ancient history. I’m certain a guy like Giannis or whoever doesn’t give a shit about that.

Get a good FO, good coach, and good core together with cap room and you’re a contender to land a premium FA. If a premium FA isn’t available you can do the Clippers thing of going all in on a trade for a guy but that’s dumb imo.

The fix comes from the top down, not the bottom up. Hopefully AK and Donovan can fix it. That’s the hope. Anything else is a pipe dream.

I hope this is right but I think NBA players see this as a backwater. It’s New York, LA, Golden State or Miami. A player dominated league is bad for business.

Who has New York landed in the past 20 years?

Durant and kyrie? You don’t have to be on the knicks to live in NY.