Short term, is there a better option? He's currently 33 and his style of play ages well. He can be the bridge to the future. Lavine's a dead end.

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At $18-20 million, Lavine was fine. I could live with his limitations. I can't do it for $40-50 million.

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The #1 goal of the Ball family is to get paid a lot of money for playing basketball, not to play winning basketball, or to play for a long period of time, but to get paid as much as possible to play basketball, they have all met that goal.

Interesting to hear the whispers about Ball getting six to seven opinions and yet not settling on a diagnosis, but then again, he's getting paid a healthy sum, so there is certainly no urgency on his part to get back to work, it's not like he's a ham and egger like the rest of us that needs to get back to work to get paid.

The Bulls can trade Lavine at that salary and still get value back. Can't get anything for Lonzo.
Derozan is a problem too. He can't defend and is a bigger ball stopper than Lavine. I'd move both of them if I could.

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This is a great time to sell.

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It is a good time. There's 7, 8, 9 teams that think they have a legit shot.

Not opposed to it but I would want players in return and not draft picks though.

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absolutely trade lavine and derozen. demar is awesome but hes a piece that we arent close enough to need right now. lavine is just a mess, the guys ego hurts the team.

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The skill set of the league means you can pick at some nice pieces. Take Atlanta for example. They are so deep skill-set wise that Trey is on the block.

I'm shocked! https://sports.yahoo.com/report-lonzo-b ... 29583.html

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Russell Westbrook has NO meniscus, just to give context. He's running and jumping bone on bone.

Dad seemingly isn't out talking trash anymore non-stop, funny how that is

2/3 legit ballers in the NBA ain't bad. Now it's probably just LaMelo though. Not what he thought it'd be but not bad either.

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Yeah, I nearly puked when I heard Donovan say he felt sorry for Ball because "he loves to play." I think knowing you'll collect $80m even if you never step on the court again cushions the blow.

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Is Karnisovas/Eversley the worst FO era in Bulls history? Worse than Gar/Pax? They just might be. This botched signing, they got hosed on the Vuc deal, Patrick Single is an awful pick at #4. It's pretty bad.

What's the nerve issue? Is this more negligence by the Bulls medical staff?

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Nerve issue, my ass.

Paxson alone was great. This is definitely worse than Gar so far. That Lavine deal won't get better.

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Laziness?

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I'd play. If they have to cut off my leg when I'm 40, oh well. With the prosthetics they make these days, you'd hardly notice when "you go to meetings".

Currently averages Double Figures in points. Never let facts get in the way of a Caller Bob inspired narrative however. Kid is hardly an "awful" pick either.

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When you see Tyrese Halliburton, it kinda is

No it isn't. Sacramento got better simply by trading Halliburton. Some impact. You also thought Fox stinks and so does Brunson. At this point no one takes your "thoughts" seriously CB

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Halliburton is averaging 19 and 10 shooting 40% from 3. And plays great defense. And if the Bulls have drafted him they would have never overpaid for Ball. And you think Patrick Williams is a better pick? Talk about ridiculous

Nah to date Haliburton is the better pick. But if you didn't have a hard on for the Paw, Haliburton would be just another "looter in a riot" as far as you are concerned.

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Somewhat laughable reading the NBA "experts" talking about orthopedic injuries, they reported the injury as a "MCL tear" and then talked about it being a meniscus injury, anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of anatomy knows that the MCL (medial collateral ligament) is in fact by its very name a ligament that runs on the medial aspect of the knee. The meniscus is totally separate, thinking that the writer types who were not smart enough to do anything in the medical field would have at least had the curiosity to get the anatomy correct?

Have thought all along that this was similar to the Cohen injury where the initial injury was far worse than first suspected and that they likely missed diagnostic data by misreading the initial MRI's or by not consulting a top knee specialist initially. The initial Cohen injury involved a tibial plateau fracture which they of course never divulged, and I don't think Cohen was advised well by the team or by his agent, so he never said how bad the injury was which made both him and the Bears look like idiots.

The biggest problem with sports for profit entities is that they are invested in getting the athletes back quickly and employ doctors that have the teams best interests in mind, and are dealing with young and vulnerable people that lack the ability to understand the diagnosis and treatment plan that is being presented to them and do not have anyone in their lives to advise them.

The Ball kids dad is a raging idiot who likely could not grasp even the most rudimentary explanation of his kids injury, so the kid was likely not given any good advice on how to proceed.

He had a second scope last September. A second misdiagnosis seems unlikely, doesn't it?

Blaming his shoes seems like something that people who hate his dad would try and spread around, not that it's impossible though.

I've tried blaming shoes and other external factors. It's easy to blame shit when you're hurt. But when I'm healthy I don't notice anything that can put me on the ir for extended time. Drinking the night before a workout is the most dangerous thing I've found. Or generally working out too many days in a row and not enough recovery time. Forcing through atrophy leads to injury easily.

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Hearing nerve damage, that would seem an odd outcome from a scope? They are obviously never going to tell you what really happened.

Does sound more and more like the Tarik Cohen case where the initial injury was far worse than the team said, felt bad for Cohen because it made it seem like he was not healing fast enough, but in reality he had suffered a tibial plateau fracture which requires a much longer recovery time than a knee ligament repair.