I'm pretty sure the Bulls wanted Bradley, Crowder and #3 (Dunn, specifically) for Butler.
I very seriously doubt they would even consider trading him for Brown and a future pick alone. I think that's dreaming to be honest.
I think that at a minimum it would take:
* Smart (PG to replace Rose) - $3.5M
* Crowder or Bradley (they were obviously high on these two) - $8M
* Jerebko (filler) - $5M
* Young (filler) - $1.8M
* The rights to swap picks with Broklyn in 2017.
That would put us at around $17M going out. I'm not even sure if they accept this to be honest, as they word is that they wouldn't take the deal earlier without both Bradley AND Crowder being included - and that would have been on the basis that they get to pick their guy at #3 too.
More realistic might be:
* Crowder - $8M
* Bradley - $8M
* Young - $1.8M
* Future Brooklyn first
This would match up on salaries and also gets the Bulls what they reported originally wanted.
It sounds like a crippling deal at first, but what we need to consider is that if we were to get Horford AND Butler, then I think that would almost assure us that Durant would follow them here...and if we had Butler and Durant at SG and SF, I don't think we'd be missing Bradley and Crowder all that much. Nor would we likely care much about that Brooklyn pick.
We could then move forward with:
PG: Thomas
SG: Butler
SF: Durant
PF: Horford
C: Amir / KO / Sully
If we could then managed to make ANOTHER move and trade Smart and a pick or two for Noel, that would give us...
Thomas, Butler, Durant, Horford, Noel.
That's got to be the best starting five in the NBA, right?