Can anyone explain to me a plausible way that we would facilitate the Bulls-Wolves deal?
I'm assuming that any such deal involves Gibson, Mirotic, and McDermott to Minnesota and Love to Chicago.
So the role we could play would be to (1) absorb an inconvenient contract and/or (2) swap a pick for a Bull that we want but the Wolves don't.
Hypothesis: the Wolves aren't actually interested in 29-year-old role-player Taj Gibson. They will build a new core around Mirotic and Rubio. Chicago has to move Gibson in this deal to stay under the cap.
So our actual opportunity here is to trade picks and wave-able contracts for Taj Gibson.
Would you guys like to send a 1st rounder to Mini, send Bogans and all the bench guys we're about to cut to Chicago, and acquire Taj Gibson?