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Report: The Bulls are Trying to Make a Jahlil Okafor Trade Work
By Jim Adair
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One down, one more to go? According to multiple reports, the Bulls are pursuing Jahlil Okafor, and offering crap in return:
Chicago has continued to push on a trade for 76ers center Jahlil Okafor, league sources tell @TheVertical. Discussions continue.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 23, 2017
Report: Bulls pushing to trade for 76ers’ Jahlil Okafor https://t.co/C5dNuANQWu
— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) February 23, 2017
Woj reported that the Bulls were pushing Nikola Mirotic, while Doug McDermott’s name kept coming up as well. Both, if packaged with a first round pick (lightly protected) would probably be fine if you can’t get anyone else to bite. But NBCSports’ Dan Feldman warns:
Perhaps, the Bulls are pushing for a trade only because they’re offering so little. Okafor’s low-post game offers intrigue. At the right price, he’d be worth adding, no matter the fit and direction presented.
Teams may only be willing to offer deals to the Sixers because they feel they have the team over a barrel. That’s what your trades being telegraphed – whether it’s your fault or not – does to you.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.