{"id":163,"date":"2022-06-30T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bulls-rumors-lavine-gallinari-drummond-white\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:39:51","slug":"bulls-rumors-lavine-gallinari-drummond-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bulls-rumors-lavine-gallinari-drummond-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Rumors: LaVine, Gallinari, Drummond, White"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Zach LaVine<\/strong> is expected to finalize a new contract with the <strong>bulls<\/strong> shortly after free agency begins at 6:00 pm Eastern, according to KC Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago.  LaVine has informed people that he plans to stay in Chicago, and his new contract will likely be a five-year max deal in the $215MM range, Johnson adds.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of rumors that LaVine was prepared to explore his options on the free agent market, the situation has settled down in recent days and a return to Chicago appeared imminent.  general manager <strong>Marc Eversley<\/strong> said after last week&#8217;s draft that the team would \u201cdo what it will take\u201d to re-sign LaVine.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old guard has been an All-Star the past two years.  He dealt with knee issues this season, but was still able to average 24.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists in 67 games.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more from Chicago, all courtesy of Johnson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bulls are among several teams that would have interest in adding <strong>Danilo Gallinari<\/strong> if he gets waived by the <strong>spurs<\/strong>.  The move is expected after San Antonio agreed to acquire Gallinari on Wednesday as part of the return for <strong>Dejounte Murray<\/strong>.  Johnson estimates that Gallinari will receive a two-year deal worth about $7-8MM per season and points out that <strong>Billy Donovan<\/strong> coached Gallinari with the Thunder.<\/li>\n<li>Chicago, which has been linked to several centers through trade and free agency rumors, has interest in signing <strong>Andr\u00e9 Drummond<\/strong>.  Several other teams will also pursue Drummond, Johnson adds, but he should be available on a veteran&#8217;s minimum salary.<\/li>\n<li>Johnson says rumors that the Bulls will try to sign <strong>Mohamed Bamba<\/strong> are \u201con life support\u201d and believes that reports of interest in dealing for Jazz center <strong>Rudy Gobert<\/strong> were exaggerated.  Another possibility could be trading for San Antonio&#8217;s <strong>Jacob Poeltl<\/strong> if the Spurs continue to unload their veterans.<\/li>\n<li>It appears likely that third-year guard <strong>Coby White<\/strong> will remain in Chicago.  Johnson states that the Bulls listened to offers for White before the draft and were asking for a young rotation player and a draft pick.  White is among Chicago&#8217;s best outside shooters and provides backcourt depth that is important with concerns about <strong>Lonzo Ball<\/strong>&#8216;s knee.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach LaVine is expected to finalize a new contract with the bulls shortly after free agency begins at 6:00 pm Eastern, according to KC Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago. LaVine has informed people that he plans to stay in Chicago, and his new contract will likely be a five-year max deal in the $215MM range, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bulls-rumors-lavine-gallinari-drummond-white\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bulls Rumors: LaVine, Gallinari, Drummond, White<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":633,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/free-agent-rumors-lavine-harden-gallinari-haslem\/","url_meta":{"origin":163,"position":0},"title":"Free Agent Rumors: LaVine, Harden, Gallinari, Haslem","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Just before free agency officially began on Thursday evening, Shams Charania said on Stadium's free agency show (video link) that he expects Zach LaVine to take a little time to finalize his decision as an unrestricted free agent. \u201cHe's going to speak with the bulls tonight and they're going to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chicago-bulls-zach-lavine-agree-to-5-year-215m-max-contract-extension\/","url_meta":{"origin":163,"position":1},"title":"Chicago Bulls, Zach LaVine agree to 5-year, $215M max contract extension","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chicago Bulls and Zach LaVine have agreed to a five-year, $215 million max contract extension, Klutch Sports announced Friday.LaVine, 27, has blossomed into a two-time All-Star in Chicago, where he arrived in the trade that sent Jimmy Butler to the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2017, and -- along with DeMar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.hoopsrumors.com\/files\/2021\/08\/Zach-LaVine-900x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}