Bulls offering Gibson, McDermott & Mirotic for Kevin Love

[Smook A.]

http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2014/07...otic-for-love/

The Chicago Bulls have offered a package of Taj Gibson and rookies Doug McDermott and Nikola Mirotic to the Minnesota Timberwolves for All-Star forward Kevin Love, a league source told SheridanHoops.com on Wednesday.

The package is extremely intriguing to the Timberwolves, but there is a catch; it cannot be completed for another 29 days after McDermott and Mirotic signed their rookie contracts Tuesday. NBA rules prohibit rookies from being traded within the first 30 days of inking their rookie deals.

That could be good news for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who still have not signed Andrew Wiggins and may not do so until the end of this week. That will give them time to present Minnesota with an offer that can be acted upon immediately, bringing the Love trade talks to a quicker conclusion and giving the Cavs a superstar trio of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Love.

A team with Rose/Love/Noah/Gasol/Butler would be absolutely disgusting. This team, in my opinion, would easily be the 2nd most balanced team in the NBA behind obviously the San Antonio Spurs. The Bulls already have one of the best coaches in the league and with Love, they would get exactly the type of guy they needed last season. An elite offensive player. They already have a really good defensive team, so no need to worry about the defense.

[Foster5k]

Only two teams have legit shots at Love. Cavs and Warriors.

Unless Bulls giving up Noah or Rose, not happening.

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Lol Love is not playing SF...Gasol comes off the bench in that situation...

[Levity]

nice little game the bulls are playing. they really want CLE to gut their team if they want Love.

as for the CHI offer, pretty interesting. is Mcdermott an NBA 3 or 4?

[Roundball_Rock]

Is he worth giving up that much???

[mattvNJ]

i like the CHI offer, McDermott is gonna be GOOD, Mirotic im is a ? but could be nice and ive liked Gibsons contributions and progression over the past few years.

[DMAVS41]

Hmmm. Taj is what you need next to Pek as well.

This is the first offer of note outside the Cavs offer in my opinion.

Only problem is that the Wolves won't be able to shed Martin or Barea with this deal.

But if they do this deal...they shouldn't want to shed Martin to begin with. They'd want to keep him because they are clearly trying to win now.

Cavs have some competition with this one. Mirotic is going to be an impact player right away. McDermott looks like he will be a guy you can give minutes to right off the bat as well. And like I said above, Taj is pretty much the perfect guy to have next to Pek.

If the Wolves are bent on pushing for the playoffs now, this is a great deal for them actually. Way better than the Warriors offer even with thompson...it's not close.

Taj, Mirotic, and Doug make a combined like 16 million a year and they are locked in for the next 3 years (Taj/Mirotic are)...

Got to say I really like this for both teams.

[HurricaneKid]

Only two teams have legit shots at Love. Cavs and Warriors.

Unless Bulls giving up Noah or Rose, not happening.

Why? I would MUCH rather have the Bull's offer than be locked into paying 33M for David Lee and Klay Thompson. And I would prefer the Cavs offer to that.

I don't see how the GSW offer, and we are talking about one that they swear doesn't even exist, is any better.

[Kingwillball]

There just has been Waaaaaay to much talk about him coming to Clev for me to believe he ends up anywhere else. If Bulls offered up Jimmy Butler, Gibson, McDermott for him I think Minny would have Legit reason to bite.

[Dr.J4ever]

Yeah, I don't think the Wolves can make the playoffs with Pek, Gibson,Mirotic/Mcbuckets, Martin, Rubio in the West. Not much different from last year.

[CHi1PriDe]

Fck that... McBuckets ain't goin no where, copped his jersey

I'm happy with our team now and Pau said he wanted to help develop Mirotic.

[kshutts1]

I must really not like Love. Or really like McDermott. But I cringe whenever I think about giving up McDermott for Love.
It would be worth it, though, cringe or not. And as long as Snell continues to improve, losing McDermott's shooting won't hurt so much.

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Lol McDermott is not gonna end up close to as good as Love...if he ends up as good as Korver he'll be a successful pick...

[DMAVS41]

Only two teams have legit shots at Love. Cavs and Warriors.

Unless Bulls giving up Noah or Rose, not happening.

What?

This Bulls offer blows the Warriors offer out of the water.

Taj is the perfect fit next to Pek and he's locked into 3 years at 8.5 million a year.

Mirotic is on a 3 year 17 million dollar deal and has loads of potential. I'd much rather have him than David Lee and his 31 million over the next 2 years.

McDermott is gonna be on his rookie contract as well.

So much better in terms of basketball...and so much better in terms of money and cap. No worry about having to pay a guy like Thompson 17 million plus a season.

[kshutts1]

Let's do Taj, Mirotic, and two future firsts and two seconds. Man, if the Bulls could pull off that coup, that would be insane.