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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Nice to see a torn ACL made them rethink this year.

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HEY HATERS, SLOW YOUR ROLL: NICK FRIEDEL SAYS RHAT NOW, FINALLY, 3YRS IN FRED HOIBERG HAS THE PLAYERS HE NEEDS TO RUN HIS OFFENSE!!!! #HOIBULLS FINNA SHOW THE NBA HOW ITS DONE (@IOWA STATE!!!)

ALSO, Friedel says that the bulls easily coulda sat back and done nothing for 2 more years (like they did for the first 2yrs post-thibbs) and kept Jimmy Butler / the status quo.... BUT NOW THE BULLS HAVE A *DIRECTION* AND S PLAN AND WE CAN **FINALLY** SEE THE PROPER #HOIBULLS BECAUSE IT'S **FINALLY** TIME TO UNLEASH THE UPCOMING BACK-TO-BACK NBA COACH OF THE YEAR: FRED HOIBERG, ON THE UNSUSPECTING NBA!!!!

Remember where you are right now, C/S/FMB; you're gonna wanna tell your grand/kids where you were when the #FredHoibergEra, aka the #Hoibulls Era, started in earnest. And I hope you have a good amount of dip ready to roll cuz WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE MORE "CHIPS" THAN A COMBINED 5 FAMILY REUNION BARBEQUES!!!!

HATERS: you will have exactly 6 months from this day to apologize to Mr. Hoiberg, aka #FreddyChips, for ever doubting him.... Cuz now the bulls are committed to a direction, and when the bulls have a direction.... Shit. Why do you think MapQuest is dead? Huh? HUH?! EXACTLY!!!!!

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LaVine is the least of my worries here. He's the only player we got back who we know can actually play basketball in the NBA. Again, great trade!

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

TLDR for last post = just start referring to Mr. Hoiberg as #FreddyChips and you will be forgiven for your doubt/haterade.

sorry, but this whole Jimmy Butler trade into the bulls selecting a white guy = caught me 3/4 in the bag like holy shit I didn't plan on.posting tonight but the bulls just traded their best player (AND their #16 pick this year. Not even a 2018 1st Rd pick) for a white guy (read: Kristaps Porzingis 2)

Wilbon: "why are you going to trade one of the 10-15 best players in the NBA to thibbs?"

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Because no one offered you anything good.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Butler obviously wasn't as valued as Paxson thought. Get rid of him before you can't. Good move and if it works out you get 3 starters for him. Bulls were never going to get a top 5 in a good draft.

Heard today that the first 14 picks will be instant impact guys.

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Wilson is trying to talk himself into liking this trade.... Tho he has to mention s busted ACL... But still getting two or three high-flyers TO BUILD AROUND D-WADE AND RONDO

Let that sink in... ESPN's chicago guy on the draft coverage is trying to like this trade BECAUSE WE'RE BUILDING AROUND D-WADE AND RAJON FUCKING "BENCHED FOR CHRISTMAS" RONDO!!!!!

WE TRADED OUR BEST PLAYER TO BUILD AROUND [~35 Y/O] D-WADE AND RONDO!!!! WHO ARE BOTH (((OVER 9000)))% GONE AFTER THIS SEASON!!!!!

Thank God BERNSTEIN SAID it's ok to stop being a bulls fan now cuz holy shit, if I actually cared about a team >>> winning I think I'd be singing Johnny Cash singing Trent reznor right now =\

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jimmy is an overachiever. he wont age well. will have one or two more good seasons, then disappear into mediocrity as fast as he rose up. fuck him.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Spin: The Bulls got 2 lottery picks and a young borderline all star for an aging all star.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I have no doubt Markkanen will have an instant impact. It won't be a positive one though.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

OK then fair play to that... But then the next obvious question is "why did you have to trade Jimmy RIGHT NOW??"

obviously the only valid answer = you LOVED this Finnish Dude they got at #7... Cuz seriously, if you didn't have a guy who you absolutely jizzed your pants over getting at #7 (fully KNOWING there's no way you could get him at #16 or even find a way to trade up to #11-12 and get) then why do you have to do this right now, ESPECIALLY of you're not getting offers anywhere near what you want for Jimmy?

Only other thing I could think of = you're afraid that Jimmy might be a malcontent this year (aka he was DONE with the bulls and keeping him around = problems that only lower his value) OR if you know about some degenerative injury or something that's been nagging at Jimmy for a yeae or two and you wanna sell high on him before he could (quite?) possibly have a MAJOR injury that decimates his value (or he just pulls a Frazier/quibtana and sucks out loud nearing the point where you HAVE to trade them)

ACTUALLY that's my conspiracy theory here... Jerry's other team held on to Frazier + Quibtana long enough to see them hit .190 for ~1/3 of a season + have a 5.00+ ERA for roughly 1/3 of a season.... And this quite possibly could be happening cuz both of those guys were !!!FUCKYEAH!!! to move last summer/off season, didn't go, then got stuck with the suckass sox and just came out and MEH'd it up and absolutely torpedoed their trade value..... So now wanting to make sure that the third time ISN'T a charm "the chairman" decided to tak whatever he could get for JB ASAP, everyone across the league likely knew this, and we got some midlevel crap and a big white guy who we might as well call Dirkristaps Porzingis-Nowitzki.

Thank GOD Bernstein said it's OK to stop being a fan now. Imma cheer my dubs all the way to being the greatest GOAT in NBA History. Durant is already better than m-jeff. Steph Curry replaces Jerry West as NBA Logo (sponsored by Under Armour) by 2025!!! GO DUBS!!!!

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Also, sorry my phone insists that "Quintana" is "Quibtana" but I never know what words/phrases it's gonna change on me cuz it always knows what I wanna say better than I do.

PLUS to be honest right now Quibtana prolly has more trade value than Quintana =P

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Zach Lowe of ESPN reports that Danny Ainge and the rest of Boston's front office had concerns with how Jimmy Butler would mesh with Gordon Heyward (both on the court and as personalities). If Boston wanted Jimmy, they definitely beat Minnesota's offer.

They didn't trade for Paul George because of him probably signing with the Lakers next summer.

Just read that as well. Sounds like Ainge really wasn't sold on Butler. If he could fleece the Bulls he would have but that would be the only way he trades for him. Also sounded like they valued Hayward more since it was Butler that would have ostensibly have had to do the meshing.

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This sounds like tampering to me. How could Ainge know that the Celtics were going to sign Heyward 2 weeks after the potential Jimmy Butler trade?

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Not really. It's far more palatable to spend money on a player than it is to trade good players for that player.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

I agree but this will be a nothing. Just like the Magic Johnson - PG thing.

Boston gave up Bradley Olynyk Amir Johnson in order to free up money to acquire Hayward. They received one of the Morris twins back for Bradley. Are the 3 players that they moved for Hayward better than what the Bulls received for Butler?

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I don't know and I don't think I care. The Bulls got a cripple as the centerpiece of the deal so probably not. Just saying you can't say Boston wanted Heyward more than Butler since the cost is dissimilar.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

People writing in the comment section are more in tuned to what is going on than the writer

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60 wins? I'm sure you meant over a 2 year stretch.

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On the money with this one. Again. It is becoming old hat at this point.

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Terrible thoughts abound.

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Assanine thoughts for a thousand!

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Maybe you need to get better at explaining. Not decidedly better? Chalk it up to another in a rather long list of terrible hoops thoughts.

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At this point it may be time to fold.

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But not before we first cite the musings of Imu.

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You are the only NBA fan that thinks Cousins is better. Give it up.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.