Alex Speers

I imagine that ideal is not the competitiveness is not shared to that degree.

I mean, at a certain point, I think AK and his front office has to probably save their jobs and break from this middling curse.

That being said, I don't expect the deadline to resemble that.

them pivoting to a rebuild like i think they're gonna do what makes sense with all these expiring contracts and and get the return they can get um but i don't expect it to resemble a rebuild at all and zion i mean of the guys who are like on that list of like i mean the ad stuff is

Foregone conclusion, I would think by now.

Well, I don't know.

But of the AD, the John Morant, the Zion, the guys who you're like scared to kind of deal with.

Zion is probably the most realistic just because he seems most like like the most tantalizing player of that bunch.

to them and probably it's probably the most realistic deal and then the other two guys are like like john moran i don't think they would touch john moran uh but like john moran is the guy who's saying now he wants to stay in memphis i don't know if you take that at face value and then the ad stuff i don't even want to talk about the ad stuff andrew and al i just don't it would feel a little bullsy though you know sure sure it would and i i think

I don't want to speak for the Bulls front office here, but I think there is a sense that people just think they don't know how to do business.

And I think they feel the... I don't know if urgency is the right word.

I think they feel the need to use this deadline and clear that up.

I don't think that means a complete rebuild again, because that would be the best thing for their reputation to me.

But they also have to...

do what's in line with ownership, right?

And ownership historically... I was talking to Bobby Porter this weekend... Bobby Porter, excuse me, in Milwaukee, asking him why Chicago historically has not been a destination for guys, which free agency is different than it was.

And he was like, you know, like, they got to open that checkbook.

Like, that is historically their...

are worried about the product and selling um and the product is at a point where it is i mean there was a report last week and we can go down this whole rabbit hole it can be its own episode there was a report last week uh of the top 10 uh selling teams merchandise i don't know if you guys saw this the bulls were not in that which is like what they've

what's been their brand.