![]() And if the route is to (draft youth), then that’s not my route.” Lillard was asked about the team’s draft pick - currently fifth before the lottery shakes things up - and if he is good with drafting another player who needs development ( via Sean Highkin at the Rose Garden Report). Lillard isn’t looking to push his way out the door now, but at his exit interview this week he once again made clear that he wants the Trail Blazers to go all-in on win-now veterans. ![]() All of that - particularly the massive check - was enough to appease Lillard and keep him in Portland. The Trail Blazers obliged and re-signed Anfernee Simons, traded for Jeremi Grant and tried to trade for OG Anunoby, offering up the No.7 pick in the draft, but when that deal didn’t get done they drafted a rookie project with the potential in Shaedon Sharpe. Last summer, Damian Lillard made it clear to the Trail Blazers that he would be happy to take their money - he has four years and $216 million left on his extended contract - but he wanted a team built around him that could win now. Still, it’s finding guys on look-aheads and getting out and running that is his specialty, and the Bulls need to go with that. In the halfcourt, Ball can serve as a secondary playmaker to LaVine, with the ball getting inside to Nikola Vucevic more, plus Ball has become respectable from 3 if you let him set his feet (38.8% on eight attempts a game last season). Ball averaged 14.6 points and 5.7 assists a game last season. Ball is at his best in transition - Billy Donovan has to get this team out and running, up from its middle-of-the-pack pace last season - and brings elite passing plus fantastic on-ball defense. Lonzo Ball to the Bulls had been rumored for days and is a good fit, they need another playmaker next to Olympian Zach LaVine. Headed back to New Orleans are Tomas Satoransky - a good shooter to play next to the driving game of Zion Williamson - and point guard Garrett Temple, as well as a future second-round pick. New Orleans Pelicans guard Lonzo Ball is landing on a four-year, $85 million contract with Chicago Bulls in a sign-and-trade agreement, his agent and CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN.īulls, who tried to acquire Lonzo Ball at March trade deadline, are confident Pelicans won't match four-year, $85M deal. The Chicago Bulls have their point guard.Īs had been expected, Lonzo Ball has agreed to a four-year, $85 million offer sheet with the Chicago Bulls, leading to a sign-and-trade with the New Orleans Pelicans, a story broken by Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and confirmed by K.C.
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